Description of problem: I have done many sucessful NFS installs of RHEL5beta2. Today I tried a FTP install and about 2/3rds the way through installing packages it claimed it had a problem reading the sabayon RPM. I checked the FTP server and the package was fine. Note that I'm "skipping" inputing a installation number. I rebooted and tried the install again and got the same error. The FTP server PATH is: /pub/netinstall/RHEL5 I did a packet capture and observed the following when I hit the "Retry" button on the sabayon popup message: 0.778021 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: USER anonymous 0.778040 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 TCP 21 > 34766 [ACK] Seq=21 Ack=17 Win=5792 Len=0 TSV=53594358 TSER=2189332 0.779906 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 331 Please specify the password. 0.780047 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: PASS anonymous@ 0.780932 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 230 Login successful. 0.781183 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD / 0.781388 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 250 Directory successfully changed. 0.781541 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD pub 0.781746 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 250 Directory successfully changed. 0.781919 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD netinstall 0.782063 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 250 Directory successfully changed. 0.782219 192.168.241.128 -> 192.168.241.1 FTP Request: CWD RHEL6 0.782392 192.168.241.1 -> 192.168.241.128 FTP Response: 550 Failed to change directory. Notice that Anaconda tried changing into the RHEL6 directory instead of RHEL5! On the server I created symlink from RHEL6 to RHEL5, clicked retry and the install continued for 5 more minutes and then bombed out. I'm attaching the traceback for the bombout.
Created attachment 146782 [details] traceback from anaconda
Seems this is duplicated by bug 229181. Suspected cause: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229181#c2
This is now working correctly in RHEL 5.1 nightly builds. Closing as nextrelease.
*** Bug 229181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***