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Bug 55308

Summary: Bad: Installer crashed
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Eduardo Menenedez <eariel>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Eduardo Menenedez 2001-10-29 15:45:31 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
The installation program aborts

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


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run istallation CD
2.Choose custom installation in graphical mode
3.
	

Actual Results:  The installation gave a message with the option to save 
to disk (attached below) and reinitiate the nstalation program 

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", 
line 20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in 
doInstall
    self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath)
  File "fstab.py", line 710, in mountFilesystems
    iutil.mkdirChain(instPath + mntpoint)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 193, in 
mkdirChain
    os.mkdir(path, 0755)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/mnt/sysimage/usr'

Local variables in innermost frame:
which: 4
dir: /mnt/sysimage/usr
elements: ['', 'mnt', 'sysimage', 'usr']
path: /mnt/sysimage/usr

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>


Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-10-29 16:20:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18092 ***