Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5710
FTP Install hangs up
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:38:33 EST
I have been atempting to do an FTP install of 6.1 with no success. At exactly the same spot every time the install just stops. After about 20 minutes of inactivity I get an error dialog that pops up showing many lines of what appears to be perl code. At the bottom of this scrollable dialog the last lines say that there was an FTP error and that the connection has timed out. At this point the only options available are to select ok which aborts the installation or to go into debug mode which also ultimately aborts the install. I have done many FTP installs of 6.0. Each time I would see similar behavour however, with 6.0 the message I got was that the file was not found (I think it was becuase there was an FTP error/timeout) and asked me if I wanted to try again. I would answer yes and the installation would resume. I am using a cable modem so bandwith should not be a problem. The site I am trying to FTP from is... sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/Linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/r edhat-6.1/i386 This site is very fast from where I am. Early in the morning the installation screen says it should only take about 26 minutes to install 500+Mb of files! Is there something about ftp (number of file limitation or size limitation) that would cause this? Why does 6.0 behave one way and 6.1 behave differently? Does this qualify as a bug?
I should mention that the place where the install stops with the ftp install is at 24 files (I selected the Gnome workstation install). The one it was working on when it stopped was GAWK I also tried the HTTP install and got somewhat further but ultimately it stopped as well.
I have experienced this problem with both ftp and http installs in RH 5.1 and 6.0 (and I used the same site you did, plus a few others). With the previous versions, I just gave up and downloaded everything to my hard drive and install from there. Every server hangs at different, but predictable points. I have not tried it with RH 6.1 yet.
Here is the text of the error as best I can transcribe it and type it in -------------- Traceback(innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real" line 225 in ?
Here is the text of the error as best I can transcribe it and type it in -------------- Traceback(innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 225, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 1000, in run rc = apply(step[1](), step[2]) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 572, in __call__ if todo.doInstall(): File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 1482, in doInstall self.instCallback, p) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 1341, in instCallback fn = self.method.getfilename(h) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 38, in getfilename file) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 66, in urlretrieve return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 184, in retrieve fp = self.open(url) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 157, in open return getattr(self, name)(url) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 379, in open_ftp (ftp, retrlen) = self.ftpcache[key].retrfile(file, type) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 583, in retrfile self.ftp.nlst(file) File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 397, in nlst File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 345, in retrlines File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 285, in transfercmd File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 267, in ntransfercmd IOError: [Errno ftp error] (110,Connnection timed out') ------------- I do not know perl at all however, there are a couple of things I observe. At the top is the routine called ? supposed to be there or is that a placeholder for a routine that was not written? I notice that there are a couple of places in the code that do have unmatched parentheses... ...self.instCallback, p)... and ...getfilename file)...
Also observed the crashing of FTP install just as it's about to start downloading gawk. At this point, the activity light on my cable modem shows no more data coming in. Tried to find a way to exclude gawk (in case the problem is with this file), but couldn't find a way to do that yet.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I tried on the alberta site, the ucsd site, and the w3.org site. Same problem everywhere.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5691 ***