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Bug 40535

Summary: installer crashes during package installation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Brian LaValley <blavalley>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Brian LaValley 2001-05-14 12:52:23 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; I)

Description of problem:
During instalation of 7.0 using anaconda update RHBA-2000-084 The installer hangs during package installation and reports and anaconda 
dump.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run install with RHBA-2000-084 anaconda update
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Here is the text of the anaconda dump.

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1491, in doInstall
    self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath)
  File "/tmp/updates/fstab.py", line 710, in mountFilesystems
    iutil.mkdirChain(instPath + mntpoint)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 193, in mkdirChain
    os.mkdir(path, 0755)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/mnt/sysimage'

Local variables in innermost frame:
which: 3
dir: /mnt/sysimage/boot
elements: ['', 'mnt', 'sysimage', 'boot']
path: /mnt/sysimage

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

<failed>


Additional info:

This machine previously ran RH6.2 and a upgrade to 7.0 was attempted in the past, but the new install of 7.0 is being performed to get Gnome 
support.

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-05-14 15:14:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23248 ***