From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: when trying to upgrade Red Hat 7.1, the installer report a bug right at 'checking for system'. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start installer. 2. after the installer ask if want to 'customize package' 3. a small window pops up stating that a bug was discovered Actual Results: the first time I saved the message on Floppy disk. The second time I chose the option 'debug' but don't know what to do, so I restart the computer. The third time I chose 'ignore' and the computer antomatically restarted. Expected Results: should continue with installer. Additional info: All the iso files are correct according to the md5sum. The following is the actual file that was saved....... Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 391, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 879, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 481, in nextClicked next = self.currentScreen.getNext () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/examine_gui.py", line 19, in getNext self.todo.upgradeMountFilesystems (self.root) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1187, in upgradeMountFilesystems allowDirty = 0) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py", line 97, in mountRootPartition if not allowDirty and theFstab.hasDirtyFilesystems(): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 810, in hasDirtyFilesystems if self.rootOnLoop(): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 264, in rootOnLoop raise ValueError, "no root device has been set" ValueError: no root device has been set Local variables in innermost frame: size: 0 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 85a2958> partition: hda7 doFormat: 0 mntpoint: /boot ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 NsS'setupFilesystems' p5 I1 sS'monitorVsync' p6 S'' sS'videoCardStateNode' p7 S'' sS'serial' p8 I0 sS'ddruidReadOnly' p9 I0 sS'bootdisk' p10 I0 sS'videoRamState' p11 S'' sS'monitorOriginalName' p12 S'' sS'language' p13 (itodo Language (dp14 S'langInfoByName' p15 (dp16 S'Arabic (Yemen)' p17 (S'ar_YE' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Argentina)' p18 (S'es_AR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Italian (Italy)' p19 (S'it_IT@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Lebanon)' p20 (S'ar_LB' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Guatemala)' p21 (S'es_GT' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Malay (Malaysia)' p22 (S'ms_MY' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)' p23 (S'ar_LY' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Oman)' p24 (S'ar_OM' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Iraq)' p25 (S'ar_IQ' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Kuwait)' p26 (S'ar_KW' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'English (South Africa)' p27 (S'en_ZA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'French (Switzerland)' p28 (S'fr_CH' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Bahrein)' p29 (S'ar_BH' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Croatian' p30 (S'hr_HR' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'French (France)' p31 (S'fr_FR@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Greenlandic (Greenland)' p32 (S'kl_GL' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Korean (Republic of Korea)' p33 (S'ko_KR.euckr' S'iso01' S'lat0-16' tsS'Ukrainian' p34 (S'uk_UA' S'koi8-u' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Mexico)' p35 (S'es_MX' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Greek' p36 (S'el_GR' S'iso07' S'gr.f16' 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Britain)' p86 (S'en_GB' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Russian' p87 (S'ru_RU.koi8r' S'koi8-u' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Norwegian, Nynorsk (Norway)' p88 (S'nn_NO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Zimbabwe)' p89 (S'en_ZW' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Nicaragua)' p90 (S'es_NI' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'German (Luxemburg)' p91 (S'de_LU@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Colombia)' p92 (S'es_CO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Basque (Spain)' p93 (S'eu_ES@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Qatar)' p94 (S'ar_QA' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Egypt)' p95 (S'ar_EG' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'French (Belgium)' p96 (S'fr_BE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Ireland)' p97 (S'en_IE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Hungarian' p98 (S'hu_HU' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Tunisia)' p99 (S'ar_TN' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'French (Luxemburg)' p100 (S'fr_LU@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Japanese' p101 (S'ja_JP.eucJP' S'iso01' S'lat0-16' tsS'Swedish (Finland)' p102 (S'sv_FI@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Saudi Arabia)' p103 (S'ar_SA' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Dominican Republic)' p104 (S'es_DO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'French (Canada)' p105 (S'fr_CA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Canada)' p106 (S'en_CA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'German (Germany)' p107 (S'de_DE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Slovenian (Slovenia)' p108 (S'sl_SI' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Uruguay)' p109 (S'es_UY' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'German (Switzerland)' p110 (S'de_CH' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Hong Kong)' p111 (S'en_HK' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Australia)' p112 (S'en_AU' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Catalan (Spain)' p113 (S'ca_ES@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Puerto Rico)' p114 (S'es_PR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Turkish' p115 (S'tr_TR' S'iso09' S'lat5-sun16' tsS'Estonian' p116 (S'et_EE' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Sudan)' p117 (S'ar_SD' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Icelandic' p118 (S'is_IS' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Botswana)' p119 (S'en_BW' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Manx Gaelic (Britain)' p120 (S'gv_GB' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tssS'allSupportedLangs' p121 (lp122 g46 ag79 ag50 ag29 ag95 ag25 ag76 ag26 ag20 ag23 ag48 ag24 ag94 ag103 ag117 ag73 ag99 ag59 ag17 ag93 ag113 ag53 ag58 ag30 ag74 ag52 ag83 ag42 ag112 ag119 ag106 ag41 ag86 ag111 ag97 ag56 ag49 ag82 ag27 ag64 ag89 ag116 ag54 ag80 ag96 ag105 ag31 ag100 ag28 ag55 ag60 ag78 ag107 ag91 ag110 ag36 ag32 ag63 ag98 ag118 ag51 ag75 ag19 ag77 ag101 ag33 ag70 ag22 ag120 ag47 ag88 ag68 ag66 ag45 ag61 ag87 ag44 ag43 ag69 ag108 ag18 ag57 ag72 ag92 ag40 ag104 ag37 ag67 ag21 ag39 ag35 ag90 ag84 ag62 ag38 ag114 ag71 ag65 ag109 ag85 ag102 ag81 ag115 ag34 asS'info' p123 (dp124 S'SUPPORTED' p125 NssS'supported' p126 (lsS'default' p127 NsbsS'instClass' p128 (iinstallclass DefaultInstall p129 (dp130 S'rootPasswordCrypted' p131 I0 sS'raidList' p132 (lsS'nameserver' p133 S'' sS'x' NsS'rootPassword' p134 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NsS'verifiedState' p181 Nsg162 (itodo Authentication (dp182 S'useNIS' p183 I0 sS'nisServer' p184 S'' sS'useLdap' p185 I0 sS'krb5Kdc' p186 S'' sS'ldapTLS' p187 S'' sS'useHesiod' p188 I0 sS'ldapServer' p189 S'' sS'nisDomain' p190 S'' sS'krb5Realm' p191 S'' sS'useLdapauth' p192 I0 sS'hesiodRhs' p193 S'' sS'useShadow' p194 I1 sS'nisuseBroadcast' p195 I0 sS'useKrb5' p196 I0 sS'useMD5' p197 I1 sS'ldapBasedn' p198 S'' sS'krb5Admin' p199 S'' sS'hesiodLhs' p200 S'' sS'hesiodDlhs' p201 S'' sbsS'users' p202 NsS'hdList' p203 NsS'dhcpState' p204 S'' sS'method' p205 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p206 (dp207 g4 <failed>
What version of Red Hat Linux were you trying to upgrade from? Also, did the existing system work properly before you tried the upgrade?
I am trying to upgrade from Red Hat 7.0, 7.0 was working fine before the upgrade. I had some luck to complete the install at the first time. But the screen went nuts after I log on, ie, right click then the menu is transparent and the list stays on. When I try to log off, I can even see the options. Then I was like what the heck, I did a complete install the next time and this is where the 'bug', problem, started. The installer gave me an option to debug, but since new to Linux, I don't know what to do at that point. Please help.
So, something went wrong during the first upgrade and then you decided to do a fresh install of 7.1? The traceback from your first post indicates that the installer was doing an upgrade....
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