Bug 440019

Created attachment 299882 [details]
screen dump of UI

Created attachment 299919 [details]
screen dump of UI with the 'Save to Remote' present

5.1 GA dump shows that the save button is present but it was produced with
other steps to reproduce. The ones described in comment #0 are not applicable
to 5.1 GA.

A wild guess is that the error dialog is initialized every an error is handled
in the code and sometimes the buttons are not set up properly.

info from jgranados:
In the case where we're installing from physical media and have no network
enabled it's logical the Save button to be missing. In the case where we have
network enabled(5.1 case) the Save button is there. 

I'll do some more testing tomorrow to confirm if the above is true or not. In
the meanwhile I'd appreciate if developers confirm that this is by design.

Thanks.

This is a bug, but it's not something that I think we need to put a priority on,
especially in RHEL.  We should fix this in Fedora, so the fix will make it to
RHEL someday, but there's no reason it should ever be a blocker for RHEL.

(In reply to comment #5)
> In the meanwhile I'd appreciate if developers confirm that this is by design.

I'm not an anaconda developer, but this appears to be by design.  Look at gui.py
in the anaconda sources, find the ExceptionWindow class and look at the __init__
constructor:

        # Remove the floppy button if we don't need it.
        if not floppy.hasFloppyDevice() and not flags.debug:
            buttonBox = exnxml.get_widget("buttonBox")
            floppyButton = exnxml.get_widget("floppyButton")
            buttonBox.remove(floppyButton)

        # Remove the remote button if there's no network.
        if not hasActiveNetDev() and not flags.debug:
            buttonBox = exnxml.get_widget("buttonBox")
            remoteButton = exnxml.get_widget("remoteButton")
            buttonBox.remove(remoteButton)

So, you either need a floppy or a configured network device, or you need to pass
in 'debug' on the anaconda command line, in order to enable the save buttons.

As I see it, anaconda is doing what it is supposed to. When there is network,
there is a button,  when there is floppy there is a floppy button, If there is
none.  no button present.
What is the required behavior?

IBM-LTC says that they're doing a network install (which, obviously, means the
network is active), but when anaconda crashes, the 'Save' button is missing.

They're on ppc hardware.  Maybe there's a bug with how anaconda is detecting if
the network is active on ppc?  I have not yet a chance to try and duplicate this
myself on ppc hardware.

I'm also assuming this is in an LPAR with ibmveth network interface.

IIRC the original bug report was against Xen HVM guest which also had networking
enabled but the Save to remote host button was missing. We have to look at the
code that detects the network/floppy and seek for possible errors.

Created attachment 303135 [details]
traceback.png (IBM Power5 Install)

Attaching screenshot of a forced traceback on a RHEL5.2-Server-20080416.0/ppc
install

Buttons displayed are: 
 * Save to Remote
 * Debug
 * OK

There is no consistent reproducer for this issue.  
Comment #1 shoes it *not* to be present, but it was a CD install.  So its sane
to say that its not suppose to be there.
comment #12 states that the present. 
comment #10 states that it was reproduced.

What are the specifics of the system from comment #12 and #10.
Going to nack it for 5.3

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