From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: During the (new - custom) installation of RedHat 7.2 (on a formatted HD), quite at the end of the installation, the installer reports the file "XFree86-compat-libs-4.0.3-2.ir86.rpm" is missing (resp. it can't find it). It asks to click on "OK" but it loops on that dialog box. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Custom 2. Choose to install ALL packages in X-Hardware 3. install Actual Results: after 2 hours installation (the 2nd CD was already in the drive) the installer reported it couldn't find the file: XFree86-compat-libs-4.0.3-2.ir86.rpm and looped on a dialog Box with just 1 button: "OK" Expected Results: it should have installed the package Additional info: It would have been good either to have on that dialog box another button "SKIP Package", for example or have the installer automatically sckip the missing file. I've switched the console with CTRL-ALT-F2 and made ls /mnt/source/.../XFree86-compat* the file was there! I made rpm -qp /mnt/source/.../XFree86-Compat* ther other rpm where OK but NOT THAT I couldn't make anything else than reboot (I'm not a Linux expert)
I think there might be something wrong with your cd. Did you verify the md5sums of the ISOs before you used them (if you downloaded them off the net, that is)? A Skip Package button is a bad idea. Skipping packages can have unintended consequences. We have no way of knowing at that point how important the package in question is. What if it's the kernel RPM, or glibc? Skipping those packages will leave your system unusable. It's better to make sure that you have undamaged media instead. I wouldn't want to run my system knowing that I had used corrupted cds for the install.
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