From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: An unhandled exception occurred during an installation update. The following message appears after the 'Reading package information...' screen: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'formatdate' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with FC4 install DVD and enter 'linux text' to start install. 2. Skip mediacheck (dvd was already media checked on this laptop and another PC) 3. Select English then US for language, keyboard. 4. Select to install by upgrading current FC3 system on laptop (Fedora Core 3 (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)) 5. Select 'Update boot loader configuration' 6. 'Reading package information...' appears 7. Generic blue screen with 'Welcome to Fedora Core' on line 1 and '<Tab>/<Alt-Tab>...' on bottom line appears. dvd drive makes chuckling (head movement) sounds for a minute then above message appears. Actual Results: Error message appeared and installation aborted. Expected Results: No message and installation update continued Additional info: notes: 1. both 'linux text' and 'linux text acpi=off' were tried. 2. both graphical and text (hit enter or enter 'linux text') tried. error message: An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please copy the full text of this exception and file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1160, in ? intf.run(id,dispatch) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 496, in run dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 174, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 242, in moveStep rc=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 172, in readPackages grpset=method.readComps(hdrlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/installmethod.py", line 65, in readComps return self.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 106, in readCompsViaMethod return groupSetFromCompsFile(fname,hdlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py", line 923, in groupSetFromCompsFile file=grabber.urlopen(filename,retry=5) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 444, in urlopen return default_grabber.urlopen(url,**kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 575, in urlopen return self._retry(opts,retryfunc,url) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 547, in _retry return apply(func,(opts,) + args, {}) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 574, in retryfunc return URLGrabbberFileObject(url, filename=None, opts=opts) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 727, in __init__ self._do_open() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 794, in _do_open fo,hdr=self._make_request(req,opener) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 885, in _make_request fo=opener.open(req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open response=self._open(req,data) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open '_open',req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain result=-func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 1119, in file_open return self.open_local_file(req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 1137, in open_local_file modified=email.Utils.formatdate(stats.st_mtime,usegmt=True) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'formatdate'
Install was attempted on a Dell Latitude CPiR with: Pentium II-400 MHz 256mb memory NeoMagic 2360 video/audio controller 60064 mb hard drive dual boot with Windows 2000 on first partition FC3 /boot using GRUB on second partition linux lvm on third partition
Can you provide the complete traceback you received?
The error message above is the complete text of what was displayed. It may contain typos, as I copied it by reading the message and typing it into my other computer. I have to confess that I am a bit perplexed now. Although I was able to duplicate the error literally 5 times running last night, I cannot do that now. I get a similar but different message. Unless you have any other comment, I would like to close the bug for now and await further investigation. I suspect that there may be some hardware related problem because I have not changed anything as far as I can tell.
I am closing the bug report. Error warning has now changed (3 straight times) to 'OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error'. <alt-f4> shows several entries indicating medium error. I believe I have a hardware problem.