Fairfax (beta 2) Description of Problem: During a graphical NFS installation on a Dell Latitude CPx laptop connected to a docking station and an external monitor, anaconda bombs out unexpectedly with the message "install ended abnormally" sometime after package installation. How Reproducible: Reproducible when connected to docking station and external monitor; haven't had the problem when standalone. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect laptop to docking station and external monitor 2. NFS graphical install 3a. First time, selected Laptop install option, Autopartition, and install GRUB on /dev/hda2 (not MBR). I went through the install routine and watched the packages start to install. I then left the computer. When I came back the GUI had gone and the console displayed the message: "install ended abnormally" Nothing else besides the normal filesystem unmounting messages was present. On VC3 the message displayed at the bottom was: * GRUB command root (hd0,1) install /grub/i386-redhat/stage1 d (hd0,1) /grub/i386-redhat/stage2 p (hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf 3b. Thinking the problem was with grub on /dev/hda2 instead of the MBR I repeated the install, but selected GRUB to go on the MBR. This time I sat by the machine and watched it. GRUB was installed corectly. However, when I went to manually select my monitor (Dell M791) and then clicked [Next], anaconda installed crashed and gave the same "install ended abnormally" message. The last thing on VC3 was a similar GRUB command. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Sounds like fsset.py python heisenbug.
This defect considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
*** Bug 49304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in CVS