Bug 50618 – RFE: Capture ALL anaconda tracebacks to hard drive

Bug 50618 - RFE: Capture ALL anaconda tracebacks to hard drive

Summary:	RFE: Capture ALL anaconda tracebacks to hard drive

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2001-08-01 14:04 EDT by R P Herrold
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:35 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-06-25 12:17:28 EDT
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Description R P Herrold 2001-08-01 14:04:39 EDT

Description of Problem:
Sometimes (human error, lack of media, lack of floppy drive, whatever) one
simply CANNOT get a copy of an anaconda traceback off a failing install

Suggestion

This actually provokes an idea on my part -- Why not 'tee' in all
instances anaconda tracebacks, in the case of install/upgrade failures,
into /tmp/anaconda-traceback.txt, and/or the install/upgrade log, so that
sysadmins, and indeed less experienced customers finding errors, can give
better reports, even if a proper floppy, with proper vfat modules, is not
at hand.

Comment 1 R P Herrold 2001-08-01 14:05:14 EDT

See also bugzilla 30029

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2001-08-01 14:54:10 EDT

Marking to consider for next release, we're past our feature freeze.

Comment 3 R P Herrold 2001-10-25 20:52:51 EDT

Repoened after release of RH 7.2
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Thi sstill seems like a useful helper for the Beta phase, and indeed for RH 
support in debugging a failing install for retail install support.

Comment 4 R P Herrold 2002-02-10 21:24:13 EST

Please consider inclusion of this as a SOP as we enter RH 8.0 beta testing. --
now is the time!

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-26 12:44:24 EST

Deferring to future release.

Comment 6 R P Herrold 2002-09-30 22:00:17 EDT

We are now hopefully before feature freeze -- freezer burn here (smile); Reopen
as an RFE for post RHL 8.0 consideration in planning items for next release

Comment 7 Michael Fulbright 2003-04-07 19:03:29 EDT

I have fixed this so if /mnt/sysimage is mounted then the traceback will go into
/root/anaconda-traceback.txt.

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