Bug 27448 - Installer crashes when loading packages.
Summary: Installer crashes when loading packages.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-13 22:17 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-02-13 22:17:40 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-02-13 22:17:32 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)


I think there might be a problem with the indexhtml-7.0-2.noarch.rpm 
file.  When I do a directory compare with my ftp program, I get the local 
and server copies of this file showing different sizes, even after trying 
to download the file several times.
I am given the following info dumped to a floppy file after the crash:

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/textw/packages_text.py", 
line 33, in __call__
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 539, in 
getCompsList
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 43, 
in readComps
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459, in 
__init__
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 428, in 
readCompsFile
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in 
__getitem__
KeyError: indexhtml

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <comps.HeaderList instance at 8232c28>
item: indexhtml

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iharddrive
HardDriveInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'fstype'
p6
S'vfat'
p7
sS'isMounted'
p8
I1
sS'fnames'
p9
(dp10

<failed>


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot from floppy disk.
2.  Enter default boot mode.
3.  Set up options ( english, US keyboard, 2 button mouse )
4.  Partition hard drive ( 15 GB - 3.2 GB for Linux w/ 125 MB swap file )
5.  Enter domain name, root password, user ID and Password.

	

Actual Results:  The screen goes blank, with a message box in the middle 
saying loading packages.  Then it aborts with the messages above, giving 
you the option to save them to a file.

Expected Results:  I believe the packages should have been confirmed and 
the installation continued.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-14 04:01:47 UTC
This means something is not setup up correctly in the hard drive install image
you setup to install from.


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