the anaconda program spit out a message before it died saying that this dump ought to be brought to your attention, so I opened this trouble ticket. I call it low severity, since I can stand up a new 7.0 stage in a couple of hours, but this might affect some possibly less skilled folks, causing confusion. Notes: Original zoot install done via FTP, botting from the bootnet.img. 7.0 upgrade attempted via FTP install, booting from 7.0's bootnet.img. Process went smooth up until the RPM's were going to be upgraded, and then anaconda produced the following dump. Hardware is a crappy Dell Optiplex GX1 (p3 450, all IDE, ATAPI CDROM, 3com NIC (3c9??), 128MB). -----BEGIN ANACONDA DUMP----- Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1526, in doInstall IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/sysimage/tmp/upgrade.log' Local variables in innermost frame: arch: i386 total: 487 msg: File exists logname: /tmp/upgrade.log i: /etc/X11 p: wmconfig l: [anacron, anonftp, apache, apmd, arpwatch, ash, aspell, at, audiofile, audiofile-devel, aumix, authconfig, autoconf, automake, autorun, awesfx, basesystem, bash, bc, bdflush, bind-utils, binutils, bison, bug-buddy, byacc, bzip2, bzip2-devel, cdecl, cdp, chkconfig, chkfontpath, cleanfeed, compat-egcs, compat-egcs-c++, 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Note, this is the name of the\012# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally\012# no need to change the default.\012\012 RgbPath\011"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"\012\012# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)\012# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of\012# the X server to render fonts.\012\012 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"\012 FontPath "unix/:7100"\012' p226 sbsS'users' p227 NsS'instPath' p228 S'/mnt/sysimage' p229 sS'intf' p230 NsS'hdList' p231 -----END ANACONDA DUMP-----
Is your /tmp directory a symlink? This will cause problems if so.
Yep, /tmp was a symlink. *sheesh* Shame on me for not noticing that. Especially since my main workstation is Solaris--having a symlink for /tmp would never fly there. Anyway, many thanks for pointing out my error. Got Guiness running smooth now, upgraded from Zoot. Again, many thanks.
No problem, glad its working now.