while installing seawolf on my desktop and selecting "upgrade" from the graphical anaconda, i got a crash that seems a python library is missing from the first CD on the window when a "file swap" is created while hitting continue anaconda just crashes, the anacdump file created is attached.
Created attachment 15824 [details] the anaconda dump of the error
I think you have a bad cd or else the something went wrong during the download. We see lots of error messages like this and it almost always means that something's wrong with the installation media. Please try again and see if that fixes the problem. If it does not, then please reopen this bug. Thanks for your report.
actually this is not a media problem but a problem on the way that anaconda is getting the partition names. i just happened to have on /dev/hdc an old disk with a old LABEL name that come from an old installation. i have just found two SWAP files on /dev/hdc5 and the LABELs that are set on my new disk are wrong (/ is on LABEL=/1 and /boot is on LABEL=/boot1. both partitions has a partition with the same LABEL that is left on hdc but not in use. taking that i didn't tell anaconda to use /dev/hdc at all, i think this is a bug on the way anaconda is getting which partition is supposed to have what. i guess that anaconda should consistently do a lookup on the partition -> mount point match that should'nt rely on the LABEL but on what is given on partitioning. surelly this is not as common as i thought initially but it surelly is a problem on anaconda that should be worked out
I'm not sure that I understand...did the installer do anything to the partitions on hdc? The installer doesn't look at partition labels at all. It scans all the partitions on all the drives and figures out which ones are ext2. Then it scans all ext2 partitions to see if there is an /etc/fstab file. All ext2 partitions with /etc/fstab files are considered to be valid installations. The user should then be given a menu of which partition they want to upgrade.
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