Bug 50578 - installer bails on redhat-release package
Summary: installer bails on redhat-release package
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-release
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-01 12:37 UTC by Mike Sklar
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-01 12:37:57 UTC
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Description Mike Sklar 2001-08-01 12:37:50 UTC
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Description of problem:
During a kickstart or manual installation of the July 29th 2001 rawhide
release the installer stops running while doing a package scan. The
complaint seems to be about the redhat-release package.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. grab rawhide july 29th release
2. try to install it
3.
	

Actual Results:  Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 608, in ?
    intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 348, in run
    self.icw.run (self.runres, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 775, in run
    self.setup_window (runres)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 755, in setup_window
    self.setScreen ()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 502, in setScreen
    (step, args) = self.dispatch.currentStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 239, in currentStep
    self.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 139, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 204, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 102, in readPackages
    id.comps = method.readComps(id.hdList)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 17, in readComps
    return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 771, in __init__
    self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 558, in readCompsFile
    self.expressions[packages[l]] = None
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 152, in __getitem__
    return self.packages[item]
KeyError: redhat-release

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <comps.HeaderListFromFile instance at 843f260>
item: redhat-release



Expected Results:  installation would ideally continued and completed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-01 15:47:11 UTC
The rawhide installer is never guaranteed to work.

In any case, the particular problem (rawhide comps looking for redhat release
instead of rawhide-release) should be fixed in the next tree.


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