Bug 55070 - installer bails during install
Summary: installer bails during install
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 55072 55073 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-25 05:10 UTC by t3k
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-10-28 15:00:44 UTC
Embargoed:


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Description t3k 2001-10-25 05:10:26 UTC
Description of Problem:
cant install system.anaconda bails as it starts to install system files


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat enigma 7.2

How Reproducible:
so far completely reproducable


Steps to Reproduce:
1. attempt to install system on blank HD
2. system fails after hd is setup and system files start to be written to system
3. 

Actual Results:
system fails kernel panic

Expected Results:
system is a PIII 450 with over 400 meg of ram its a abit motherboard, memorex 1622 cd-rw, ATI all-in-wonder(mach64 Xserver), 
and a kingston 10-100tx nic card, us robotics 33.6k modem

Additional Information:Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 620, in ?
    intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 350, in run
    self.icw.run (self.runres, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 778, in run
    mainloop ()
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2608, in mainloop
    _gtk.gtk_main()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 497, in handleRenderCallback
    self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 135, in renderCallback
    self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 399, in nextClicked
    self.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 143, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 434, in doPreInstall
    method.mergeFullHeaders(id.hdList)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 26, in mergeFullHeaders
    hdlist.mergeFullHeaders(self.tree + "/RedHat/base/hdlist2")
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 161, in mergeFullHeaders
    rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist, fd, 1000004)
rpm.error: match tag missing in new header

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <comps.HeaderListFromFile instance at 86aa8a0>
file: /mnt/source/RedHat/base/hdlist2
fd: 25


Package Group selection status:
Base: 1
Printing Support: 1
Classic X Window System: 1
X Window System: 1
Laptop Support: 0
Spelling: 0
GNOME: 1
KDE: 1
Sound and Multimedia Support: 1
Network Support: 1
Dialup Support: 1
Messaging and Web Tools: 1
Graphics and Image Manipulation: 0
Network Server: 0
News Server: 0
NFS File Server: 0
Windows File Server: 0
Anonymous FTP Server: 0
SQL Database Server: 0
Web Server: 0
Router / Firewall: 0
DNS Name Server: 0
Network Managed Workstation: 0
Authoring and Publishing: 0
Emacs: 0
Utilities: 0
Legacy Application Support: 0
Software Development: 1
Kernel Development: 0
Windows Compatibility / Interoperability: 0
Games and Entertainment: 0
Everything Include: 0
Workstation Common: 1
Server: 0
Everything: 0


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Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-10-25 12:41:15 UTC
*** Bug 55072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-10-25 12:41:49 UTC
*** Bug 55073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-10-26 19:14:16 UTC
Did you check the md5sums of the ISOs before using them?  I think you might have
a bad cd.

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2001-10-28 06:39:30 UTC
I'm having same problem. Crashes when nearly complete, and in regards to 
MD5SUM, I would assume that anything you folks package would work out of the 
box.  I guess not in this case.



Comment 5 Brent Fox 2001-10-28 14:58:44 UTC
jason, did you buy the retail cd's or download them?  The reason I ask is that a
large percentage of the bug reports that we receive are due to corrupted ISO
images that people downloaded.  I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that the
original reporter of this bug downloaded the ISOs from the web.  

Can you attach the debug error message that you saw when the crash occured?

Comment 6 Brent Fox 2001-10-28 15:00:38 UTC
jason, nevermind.  I see bug #55245 that you filed.  We will investigate your
issue there.

Comment 7 Brent Fox 2001-11-07 19:52:04 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.


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