Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 25724
Package/CD read problem forces restart of update
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) During the upgrade to Fisher (+ extra manually selected files) from a 2 day old RedHat 7.0 on a Dell laptop I got the following message on the 2nd disk: "The file /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.4.0-0.99.11.i386.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press <return> to try again" When I pressed the OK button it returned to the same screen forever. There was no apparent way to proceed with the install and it did not appear to access the CD. A 'skip this file' option would be nice on this screen. I had to start over and chose a new install even though there was no apparent issue with the data on the CD. After restarting, I was able to do an install from scratch that included the same rpm file without any problems. Reproducible: Didn't try given the partial upgrade state - I did a fresh install Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reach a condition where anaconda thinks that it cannot access an rpm file for installation 2. The error screen does not allow skipping the unavailable rpm and gets into an endless loop. 3. No apparent CD read attempts occurred during the endless loop.
If you didn't pop the CD in and out, the buffer on the CDROM drive would prevent the light from turning on on retries. A "skip package" is a bad idea, as we don't know how important that package is. It could likely leave you with an unbootable system.
I'm reopening this bug - just to get your attention and have you reconsider the issue. You can close it again for all I care. But: I had a media failure on bdflush while updating my machine to 7.1. Stopping an update midways through has much more potential to be fatal than skipping a single package. I was _really_ annoyed with not having the option to skip the package at the time. Making policy decisions for Joe FirstTimeInstaller is fine. But I like to think that I know a thing or two more than Joe - and I would have been much happier skipping the package than rebooting my box in the middle of the upgrade, particular given the package in question. FWIW I could not eject the CD since it was mounted and the mount point was active so I could not unmount it. I was plenty pissed, let me tell you. Fortunately, the package was one of the first, so my system didn't get screwed. But it could just as easily have been. All because I was given no other option than that useless 'press here, and I'll pop up another dialog just like it' -dialog. Thanks, Jesper
I get a similar message when installing on a laptop using the pcmcia.img boot disk and installing from an internal FTP site. It always says the file /mnt/sysimage/tmpindexhtml-7.1-2.noarch.rpm cannot be opened.
this happened me, exactly this, and my workaround to not start over the installation was to: - switch to the console (alt-f2) - umount /mnt/source - mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/source - alt-f1 and voili, everything went smoothly