Bug 468487 - FC10 Beta Graphical Installer from DVD crashes if no known network adapter recognized
Summary: FC10 Beta Graphical Installer from DVD crashes if no known network adapter re...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-25 03:50 UTC by Steve Paul
Modified: 2009-10-26 13:32 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-10-26 13:32:19 UTC
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2008-10-25 03:50 UTC, Steve Paul
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Description Steve Paul 2008-10-25 03:50:17 UTC
Created attachment 321486 [details]
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Description of problem:
FC10 Beta  Graphical Installer crashes if network adapter is not recognized and no recognized network adapter is installed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC10 Beta

How reproducible:
Every Time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build new PC with unrecognized network adapter (Intel® 82566DM in my case, which is recognized in FC9 Installer..)
2. Pick any installation path.
3. Installer crashes failing to install
  
Actual results:
"An unhandled exception has occurred.."
V Details
anaconda  11.4.1.40 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/network.py", line 529, in doPreinstall
    if dev.get('GATEWAY'):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1469, in doPreinstall
    anaconda.id.network.write(anaconda.rootPath)
..
..
tons of pages with the effect being
"UnboundLocalError: local variable 'dev' referenced before assignment"

Checking ALT-F2 then dmesg shows no eth0 device recognized when the above integrated NIC is recognized in FC9.  

Installing a well recognized NIC in a PCI slot and the installation works beautifully to completion.

Expected results:
Installation

Additional info:
ASUS P5E VM DO was a fully supported mainboard in FC9 with the exception of the integrated video required an X11 update.  It appears in FC10 beta, support for this NIC in the installer has been removed?

Comment 1 Thiago 2008-10-31 21:14:40 UTC
I had the same problem on a Lenovo T61 with a Intel 82566MM Gigabit Network.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:13:29 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 dongjibing 2009-10-26 08:38:39 UTC
You can try F12 rawhide again.If problems continue, please attach /tmp/anacdump.txt
and lspci -v output on FC9

Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2009-10-26 13:32:19 UTC
This should be fixed in F12.


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