Bug 56501 - Installer crashed and gave me a message to save on a floppy
Summary: Installer crashed and gave me a message to save on a floppy
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-20 03:10 UTC by sdalieiii
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-11-20 18:38:49 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
dump text that the installer said it was a bug and told me to report it (62.28 KB, text/plain)
2001-11-20 03:12 UTC, sdalieiii
no flags Details

Description sdalieiii 2001-11-20 03:10:21 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
during the install of packages it froze and gave me a message which I 
saved on a floppy

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


How reproducible:
Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go through all of the installation steps and when packages were being 
processed it stopped, I have not been able to reproduce this installation 
failure.
	

Actual Results:  not able to install 7.2 on my compter

Expected Results:  the ability to install 7.2 and have it work properly

Additional info:

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


THERE IS AN ATTACHMENT "annacdump" text

Comment 1 sdalieiii 2001-11-20 03:12:31 UTC
Created attachment 37987 [details]
dump text that the installer said it was a bug and told me to report it

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-11-20 18:38:42 UTC
From looking at the debug attachment, it looks like the kernel is oopsing.  Do
things work if you try again?  If you can reproduce the problem, I'll transfer
this to the kernel team.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-12-02 03:25:09 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.


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