Bug 34654 - Grapical installer chrashes(allso in text mode when no mouse) just before instaling packages
Summary: Grapical installer chrashes(allso in text mode when no mouse) just before ins...
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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
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 36629 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-04 09:55 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-06-25 16:46:18 UTC
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2001-04-04 09:56 UTC, Need Real Name
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Description Need Real Name 2001-04-04 09:55:03 UTC
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Grapical installer chrashes(allso in text mode when no mouse) just before 
instaling packages, the text mode installer however dosen't

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start installation grapicly
2.mark select indiviual packages
3.select some packages(perhaps on cd 2)
4. wach the installer chrash
	

Actual Results:  a bugreport came up with a backtrace

Expected Results:  it should proceed to install

Heres what it said:

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/text.py", line 1030, in 
run
    rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in 
__call__
    if todo.doInstall ():
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1469, in 
doInstall
    self.fstab.makeFilesystems ()
  File "fstab.py", line 594, in makeFilesystems
    isys.makeDevInode(device, '/tmp/' + device)
  File "isys.py", line 195, in makeDevInode
    return _isys.mkdevinode(name, fn)
SystemError: (17, 'File exists')

Local variables in innermost frame:
fn: /tmp/hda1
name: hda1

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-04-04 09:56:06 UTC
Created attachment 14603 [details]
traceback

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-04-09 20:02:38 UTC
Does the install still hang if you use text mode?

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-04-20 04:11:47 UTC
How big are you trying to make your / partition?

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2001-04-21 11:39:08 UTC
the installer does not chrash if i use "text" to install, nor if I don't select
individual packages.
The / partition is 450 MB
How ever it is not due to lack of space, if i select the same packages in txt
mode the installaton goes along smoothly

Comment 5 Michael Goszczynski 2001-05-06 21:14:23 UTC
On my machine anaconda crashes each time, even in text mode.
My hardware is:
AMD K-5 PR@100 MHz
16 MB RAM
3.2 GB & 8.4 GB Hard-drives

Comment 6 Brent Fox 2001-05-07 22:08:54 UTC
*** Bug 36629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jitendra Kulkarni 2001-05-27 06:27:46 UTC
I have PII450, 64MB Ram No SCSI. Instllation crashed 99% of time in GUI. I got 
only one install in around 20 tries and that was partitionless, so useless.  
All the failures were while tranferring image to disk. Once I got a 
partitionless install but postinstall script hung. After
reading this report, I tried GUI without individual pacckage selection, install 
crashed at the same place it used to: while transferring install image to the 
disk. The I tried text mode without individual pacckage selection. It worked.

Comment 8 Brent Fox 2001-06-13 03:27:11 UTC
I don't really know what is causing this problem.  Have you tried 7.1?

Comment 9 Brent Fox 2001-06-25 16:46:11 UTC
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information.

Comment 10 Michael Goszczynski 2001-10-28 08:55:25 UTC
Unforyunatelly, the same bug occurs in Red Hat 7.1.


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