Anaconda crashes during install of Raw Hide 20010405 on a Compaq Armada M700 laptop. I had copied the RPM files from an ftp mirror to a hard drive on another Linux box, then ran the bootnet.img disk on the laptop and tried an FTP install by FTP'ing to the Linux box that had the RPMS. The installer found and installed the packages without a problem, but after entering custom monitor sync ranges, I'm prompted to "probe" or "don't probe". After choosing don't probe I get the following traceback: ---------------------------- snip --------------------------- Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 508, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1222, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 616, in __call__ OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/run/SERVER' Local variables in innermost frame: f: <closed file '/mnt/sysimage/var/run/SERVER', mode 'w' at 9b5d418> self: <text.XconfiguratorWindow instance at 873bde8> todo: <todo.ToDo instance at 823e728> args: ['xconfigurator', '--continue'] screen: <snack.SnackScreen instance at 821dd78> ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 (itext ProgressWindow (dp5 S'scale' p6 (isnack Scale (dp7 S'w' <failed> ----------------------------- snip ----------------------------- Hope this helps.
This is fixed in the current installer, AFAIK.
Oops, my bad. I actually make it further than I stated in the bug report. I get through the "don't probe", pick 8 MB of video memory and display resolutions, then an X server is started and it's not until I select the 'yes I can see this' dialog box that the install aborts. Sorry for the confusion, hope this helps Dave
I recall some bugs similar to this one. This has been fixed in the current internal tree, but I think that hasn't been pushed out to Rawhide. Fixed with anaconda-7.1-5.i386.rpm (and probably before that)