Bug 55821 - Anaconda Installation fails
Summary: Anaconda Installation fails
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.2
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-07 06:23 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-11-08 17:07:29 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-07 06:23:12 UTC
Description of Problem:
rh7.2 Anaconda installation fails when installing to /dev/hde5 on PDC20265 onboard controller. Athon 900Mhz, ASUS A7V133 mboard, bios (June 2001), Radeon VE graphics card, no standard floppy drive - use superdisk as slave on secondary ide controller.

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

How Reproducible:
always errors out during installation during portion when files are copied/installed to hard drive.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. using custom package installation
2. not choosing individual packages
3. 

Actual Results:
Traceback (innermost last):
 File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 620 in?
  intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
 File "/usr/bin/anaconda/text.py", line 408, in run dispatch.gotoNext()
 File "/usr/bin/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep
  rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
 File "/usr/bin/anaconda/packages.py", line 434, in doPreInstall
  method.mergeFullHeaders(id.hdList)
 File "/usr/bin/anaconda/image.py", line 26, in mergeFullHeaders
  rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist, fd, 1000004)
 rpm.error: match tag mismatch

Expected Results:


Additional Information:
 the above described error is consistent in both graphical and text installation modes.It's possible the bios and Hardware (via chipset) config may be buggy... so currently, to get Linux to install at all, I am using the default bios settings for the newest bios version.

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-11-08 17:07:21 UTC
Did you check the md5sums of the ISO's before you burned them?  I think you
might have bad cd's.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-11-09 15:34:44 UTC
wow, that did it. thanks. will "religiously" use md5sum on all downloaded 
images from now on.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-11-09 21:12:10 UTC
Yes, md5sum is your friend.  :)


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