Bug 56797 - Anaconda Displays an error and terminates the installation process when all packages are installed
Summary: Anaconda Displays an error and terminates the installation process when all p...
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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
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-27 22:13 UTC by Guillem
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-12-19 15:12:06 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
The file is the core dump of the installation process (76.25 KB, patch)
2001-12-04 22:18 UTC, Guillem
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Description Guillem 2001-11-27 22:13:17 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [ca] (Win95; U)

Description of problem:
I've tried to select diferent packages and the problem persists. I've tried in a P150 with 49 MB of RAM and with a PIII600 with 256 MB of 
RAM

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Only start Installation
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Fatal crash and the system dosen't work anymore

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-11-28 20:56:18 UTC
Does it crash and give you the opportunity to save the traceback to a floppy? 
If so, could you attach this traceback?

Comment 2 Guillem 2001-12-04 22:18:21 UTC
Created attachment 39627 [details]
The file is the core dump of the installation process

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-12-18 16:56:46 UTC
Can you try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'?  Does that help?

Comment 4 Guillem 2001-12-19 15:12:02 UTC
All drives attached in my computer are DMA access capable.That does'nt work!!
(The Computer is an Intel Pentium III 600 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. With a 40 GB 
Hard Disk, and a Sony DVD.)

Comment 5 Brent Fox 2002-01-21 04:53:34 UTC
Oh, I see what the problem is.  From looking far down in the traceback, I see
the following message:

Instalacisn de shadow-utils.
unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/login.defs;3bffa710: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

This means that the installation of shadow-utils failed.  This package contains
the /usr/sbin/usermod command, so when anaconda runs usermod in the post-install
script, the program crashes because it can't find the command.  I think that you
have a bad cd since it appears that the shadow-utils RPM is corrupt on the cd. 
Please reopen if you see this behavior with different cdroms.


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