Description of problem: When a non-anonymous ftp server is the install media source, and the URL string is improperly formated the installer will crash. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: During install select URL as installation source point to a non-anonymous ftp server improperly such as, ftp://usr@ip/path Actual results: anaconda crashes as shown bellow, loader received SIGSEGV! Backtrace: /sbin/loader(loaderSegvHandler+0xa0)[0x804fd30] [0x12e400] /sbin/loader(urlMainSetupPanel+0x3f3)[0x8069413] /sbin/loader(mountUrlImage+0x2c8)[0x8061988] /sbin/loader(main+0xfc6)[0x8051336] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x4355d6] /sbin/loader[0x804ddd1] install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /proc done /dev/pts done /sys done you may safely reboot your system Expected results: Fail to connect and re-request URL either at this point or later at the package selection, informing that meta data could not be found like an incorrect address would. Additional info:
this is package: anaconda-11.4.0.81-1
This should be fixed in anaconda-11.4.0.82-1.
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