Bug 444894 - doesn't properly catch a bad import of the install backend
Summary: doesn't properly catch a bad import of the install backend
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F10Blocker, F10FinalBlocker
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Reported: 2008-05-01 16:08 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-07-11 21:10:07 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2008-05-01 16:08:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

Say you make a typo in yuminstall.py (or any other backend). The import
of this will silently fail, leaving you with a rather blank backend.

This makes the installer work for a while, and then fail later in rather random
ways.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rawhide-20080501
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-05-01 16:34:02 UTC 
Yeah, this is due to how it happens in the installclass and there's lots of
handling for bad installclasses.  We should try to make this better for F10
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:29:15 UTC 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2008-07-11 21:10:07 UTC 
Jeremy - looks like you fixed this up with
74399a3bbba4716eaa178b258af9e0e82dec6d97.  Closing.
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