From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) Description of problem: When reintalling the Redhat linux 7.1 to my personal computer without re-format the hardisk and re-install additional packages as the my previous configuration, the installer cannot be completed the installation. The attachement is the findings. I think it must been something in relation to root's password over-writting. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Redhat 7.1's CDROM 2. Without Re-format the previous partition 3. No packages is choose Actual Results: Imcompletion installation and quit gracefully. Expected Results: Installation Completion Additional info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 19, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1965, in doInstall self.writeConfiguration () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1659, in writeConfiguration self.writeRootPassword () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 904, in writeRootPassword self.setPassword("root", pure) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1481, in setPassword stdout = '/dev/null', stderr = None) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 48, in execWithRedirect raise RuntimeError, command + " can not be run" RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/usermod can not be run Local variables in innermost frame: argv: ['/usr/sbin/usermod', '-p', '$1$M9CcRPgy$0FuofsDHB1EKTozVd4QaT0', 'root'] root: /mnt/sysimage stdin: 0 newPgrp: 0 stdout: 23 stderr: 24 command: /usr/sbin/usermod searchPath: 0 ignoreTermSigs: 0 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 (igui ProgressWindow (dp5 S'total' p6 I117 sS'window' p7 (igtk GtkWindow (dp8 S'_o' p9 <failed>
Doing an install without formatting partitions (with the exception of the /home partition if you have one) is not going to work. Otherwise, you will probably be left with a jumble of files from the previous install and the new install. Please reopen this bug if you still see this problem after trying an install where you format the partitions.