Bug 173333 - Installer only proposes 'reboot' or 'retry' on read error for component
Summary: Installer only proposes 'reboot' or 'retry' on read error for component
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-16 13:12 UTC by Didier Trosset
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-11-17 07:46:54 UTC
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Description Didier Trosset 2005-11-16 13:12:10 UTC
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Description of problem:
The CD I burned the Fedora Core 4 installation disk 1 had an error.

Installation goes smoothly until anaconda tries reading a package that was not readable on the CD. It pops a dialog showing only two buttons 'reboot' and 'retry'.

I would have choose the 'ignore' button if there were one.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Burn a FC4 CD Disk 1 with an error
2. Install normally, selecting the component that produces the erroneous read.

  

Actual Results:  The dialog only proposes 'reboot' and 'retry' options.

Expected Results:  I would have liked a 'ignore' button that would have skip this package but kept the installation going. I'm sure it wouldn't have caused troubles as the unreadable package was ghostview, not mandatory for a running system.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rahul Sundaram 2005-11-16 13:38:12 UTC
The problem with this solution is that the package corrupted might be a
dependency of a already installed package.The installer doesnt have any list or
package specific knowledge of what counts as 'important'. In a future release, a
rescue mode might help is such situations

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaWorkItems#rescue

Meanwhile, checking that the disk is ok using the mediacheck option available in
the start of the installation would help avoid this.


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