Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 28133
Install fails upon package selection start - restart machine only option
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:32 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) I'm trying to install 7.0 Pro Server with Workstation auto setup on my computer. On one of my HD's I have a copy of NT 4.0. On the one I'm installing over is an old copy of RH 6.1. I get through the installation until the package selection whereby anaconda crashes (see Actual Results). I've tried it in text, linux and linux updates mode Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert RH 7.0 Boot diskette 2. Do: linux updates (using update-disk-20001009) 3. Select language (english). 4. Select PC layout (Generic 101, UK, Enable dead keys) 5. Select Mouse (generic 3 button PS/2) 6. Select Workstation install 7. Select Auto partiton and remove data 8. Select GMT London Timezone 9. Enter root passwd and setup user 10. Reads package info. 11. Exceptional condition (crash) occurs Actual Results: An exceptional conditon has occurred. (yada yada yada) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 336, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 678, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 428, in nextClicked self.setScreen (self.currentScreen, self,nextClicked) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 463, in setScreendirection () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 428, in nextClickedself.setScreen (self.currentScreen, self.nextClicked) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py, line 466, in setScreennew_screen = screen.getScreen () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/package/package_gui.py, line 427, in getScreenself.todo.getCompsList() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 539, in getCompsListself.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 16, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + 'RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages, arch, matchAllLang) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 428, in readCompsFile comp.addpackage(packages[l]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in __getitem__ return self.packages[item] KeyError: MAKEDEV Expected Results: The installer should have installed all my packages My Machine: 2* P133 (AST Premmia GX) 112MB RAM 2 * Internal SCSI drive, 1 * Int SCSI cdrom (ncr53c8xx driver) 2 * Matrox Millenium II 4MB (going for dual heads) 1 * Soundblaster AWE32 Onboard AMD1400L NIC(Anyone know of a driver for this?)
Was this a hard drive or CD based install? In either case you are either missing required files, or have a bad CD.
This was CD based install that has succeeded on approximately 20 other various INTEL based machines to date (from the exact same CD).
I would suspect the CDROM drive itself then.
The CD-ROM drive H/W is 100% OK. (Being a standard ATAPI IDE unit) I can happily install RH 4.1, 4.2, 6.0, 6.1, Win9x, NT using the drive. I shall install another CD-ROM drive just to absolutely confirm any conflict etc. (maybe a driver issue?) I notice you have changed the bug to RESOLVED. Why was this done without confirming your assumption?
Sorry - as before drive is not atapi. - I'll try with an ATAPI unit.
I get the same error when attempting a Hard disk install. The install finds the distribution in the RedHat directory, and I select to run a Custom install, create new partitions for / and swap, select mouse, timezone and initial users/passwords, select authentication options Shadow password on, MD5, NIS, LDAP Kerberos off. Install reports "Reading package information" and very soon after I get the failure and the Anaconda dump file as follows. 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 8253728> 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>
Additional background to my previous posting. It seems by previous msgs in this bug that I am missing a file. If so can't we tell which file it is by looking in the dump as shown in my previous posting? Further background info is : I downloaded most of the dosutils, images and RedHat directories, but not the RedHat/instimages because I read it is only for NFS installs. The files are on a Win32 partition, so Linux install will see it. There are 869 files in RPMS, so I think I got the entire RPMS distribution. Can anyone confirm this. All files in there are dated 28 or 30 Aug 2000. I used dosutils/rawrite to set up a boot disk from images/boot.img. I then attempted the Hard disk install as per the previous posting.
The only way this failure can occur is if the file was not read from the CD. You can check on VC3 and VC4 (cntl-alt-f3 and -f4) to see if there are read errors from the CD.
Well I am happy to say that this is now coming via Netscape under RH7. I got a CD and booklet from the local newsagents for $15, and did a CD install last week - several installs actually, just to try things :-). However I still do not know why the original install failed and am a bit concerned that : - VC3, 4 etc showed nothing - the error message was not clear - you folk could not tell me what the problem file was. I guess I get to work it out myself one day.
I am sorry for the original issues you encountered. I am happy you were able to get your system installed in the end. We are continually adding new exception handling to the installer so there are fewer and fewer mysterious crashes like you encountered. I am closing this as 'RAWHIDE', which basically means it works now.