Bug 174563 - anaconda crashes initializing the passwd file with /usr/sbin/usermod error
Summary: anaconda crashes initializing the passwd file with /usr/sbin/usermod error
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-30 05:25 UTC by G.Wolfe Woodbury
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-12-01 03:52:40 UTC
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anaconda dump of exception - date of rawhide 2005-11-29 (822.08 KB, text/plain)
2005-11-30 05:28 UTC, G.Wolfe Woodbury
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Description G.Wolfe Woodbury 2005-11-30 05:25:07 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
rawhide of 2005-11-29, install proceeds normally until anaconda goes to write the passwd file with the root passwd.  It produces a traceback with the ultimate error of "/usr/sbin/usermod can not be run"

Anaconda dump attached below.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-10.90.8-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install rawhide mirrored to 2005-11-29
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  traceback

Expected Results:  write the passwd file and proceed to install grub, etc...

Additional info:

work1: Celeron (Coppermine) @ 500MHz on MSI motherboard
       256 MB RAM       VIA chipset

Comment 1 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2005-11-30 05:28:39 UTC
Created attachment 121623 [details]
anaconda dump of exception - date of rawhide 2005-11-29

also at http://wolves.homeip.net/~ggw/texts/anacdump.txt.20051130

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2005-12-01 03:52:40 UTC
This is being caused by the selinux policy changes requiring some changes to how
anaconda uses policy -- hopefully fixed for tomorrow's rawhide


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