Bug 20086 - Installer reboots before finishing install. Has happened twice.
Summary: Installer reboots before finishing install. Has happened twice.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-31 09:16 UTC by Gustav Axelsson
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2000-12-18 18:17:35 UTC
Embargoed:


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Installer dumped this file (876 bytes, text/plain)
2000-10-31 09:17 UTC, Gustav Axelsson
no flags Details

Description Gustav Axelsson 2000-10-31 09:16:22 UTC
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line
20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1631, in
doInstall
    self.fstab.write (self.instPath)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 740, in write
    iutil.mkdirChain(prefix + mntpoint)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 193, in
mkdirChain
    os.mkdir(path, 0755)
OSError: [Errno 17] Filen existerar: '/mnt/sysimage/home'
//Filen existerar = File exists (Swedish language)

Local variables in innermost frame:
which: 4
dir: /mnt/sysimage/home
elements: ['', 'mnt', 'sysimage', 'home']
path: /mnt/sysimage/home

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'currentDisc'
p6
I2
sS'tree'
p7
S'/mnt/source'
sS'device'
p8
S'hdc'
sS'progressWindow'
p9

<failed>

Comment 1 Gustav Axelsson 2000-10-31 09:17:21 UTC
Created attachment 4815 [details]
Installer dumped this file

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-31 16:14:01 UTC
Did you choose to format all partitions? It seems like the /home directory was
present already on your root partition.

Comment 3 Gustav Axelsson 2000-11-01 15:09:30 UTC
Yes I choose to format all the partitions.

They were already present because I had RH 6.1 before.
I thought it was best to do a complete install rather than to upgrade from 6.1
to 7.0.


Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2000-11-14 20:09:50 UTC
What partitions and mount points are you using for the install?

Comment 5 Gustav Axelsson 2000-11-18 07:42:06 UTC
I solved the problem. It was my harddrives fault, something was wrong with it,
that's why it never remembered such things as mount points.
The harddrive probably gave the installer wrong information at one point or another.

Thanks for all the help!

(I used /, /usr, /boot and /home. The partitions was somewhat strange, it looked
like an extended DOS partition. I removed all partitions using FDISK under
ms-dos and re-created them during the RH Linux installation while no other
partitions existed. It worked.)

Comment 6 Brock Organ 2000-12-18 18:17:32 UTC
glad to hear you got it all sorted out ... thanks for your report!


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