From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 When installing Red Hat 7.0 the program crashes, while running Anaconda. I had a similar problem, a known bug, and I downloaded the update image, and used it. That bug disappeared, but then is this other. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Booted installer from floppy. In propmt, entered : "linux updates" 2.After selecting language, keyboard, etc. and installing media (cd-rom or hard drive), the program asks for the update disk. I inserted the disk. 3. When reading the update image, the program crashes. Actual Results: Running Anaconda... etc. Traceback (innermost last): file "usr/bin/anaconda.real" , line 206, in ? from todo import ToDo file "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 27, in ? import fstab file "/tmp/updates/fstab.py", line 427 ^ Syntax Error : invalid syntax. install exited abnormally Sending kill signal.... etc., the system goes down. Expected Results: I expected Red Hat would have been installed! My machine is a P-II 400mhz, 8.1 GB primary hd - 540 MB secondary hd, 64 MB RAM. The primary hard disk is partitioned in one Windows 95 fat, one Linux native and one Linux swap partition, from a previous Linux install (no Red Hat).
It is very likely the floppy you used is corrupt. I would recommend downloading the update again and trying a different floppy.
Yes, it passed through, it was a corrupt disk. But now I am getting the same bug I am trying to fix with the update! The error messages is as it 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 "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 539, in getCompsList self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) 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: perl Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderList instance at 8332210> item: perl 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> So, almost the exact bug. What can be going on?
This bug has occurred in my experience when something about the hard drive install image is corrupt, in this case it looks like the perl RPM is corrupt or missing. This can happen when downloaded the files. I would recommend trying to use a different server and grabbing the perl RPM and replacing your current one.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18019 ***