From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Red Hat/1.0.4-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: At least on systems such as IBM T40 where there's a wireless adapter in the system which isn't operational during installation (due to missing firmware) eth1 wont get configured and firstboot in --reconfig mode will traceback. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firstboot-1.3.39-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install T40 (or similar) with kickstart, adding ipw2100-firmware package in kickstart %post, enable firstboot --reconfig mode 2. When entering firstboot the the traceback happens Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py, line 502 in loadModules vbox, pix, title = module.launch() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/networking.py", line 93, in launch self.updateLabels() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/networking.py", line 128, in updateLabels lines=open(path).readlines() IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1' Expected Results: It should be able to configure the wireless adapter instead of crashing. Or at least not crash :) Additional info: I've only seen this with T40 with the above procedure but maybe it applies to some other situations as well. In any case firstboot should check for the ifcfg-ethX files' precense before trying to read them.
Fixed in Rawhide, adding to RHEL4U3 proposed list.
I see a similar error with nonexistent ifcfg-eth3 for RHEL 4 on a Dell Poweredge 2850. Here is my firstboot log: [root@orca ~]# more firstboot.1137635032.66 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py", line 502, in loadModules vbox, pix, title = module.launch() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/networking.py", line 93, in launch self.updateLabels() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/networking.py", line 128, in updateLabels lines = open(path).readlines() IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth3' [root@orca ~]#
This issue is on Red Hat Engineering's list of planned work items for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 release. Engineering resources have been assigned and barring unforeseen circumstances, Red Hat intends to include this item in the 4.4 release.
Created attachment 129976 [details] ppc Arch Traceback Error Screenshot Chris I have attached the screenshot file of that traceback error I found hen running firstboot --reconfig command on ppc in vnc. Please have a look on it. Satya
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0324.html