Hide Forgot
This looks very very similar to bugs #5705 and #5545 I tried installing it by both HTTP and FTP...I am upgrading from a Rh 6.0 install which is on hda2 (hda1 is a fat16 with dos). It is a simple IDE hd, with no raid or anything special. And when it crashes my linux partition does not seems to have been mounted. While it was in the "Reading packages information" phase I had the following python error... (which has been copied by hand from a "screenshot" done with a digital camera) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real" line 225, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-package/text.py", line 1000, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-package/text.py", line 251, in __call_ todo.upgradeFindPackages (root) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-package/todo.py", line 1125, in upgradeFindPackages packages = rpm.findUpgradeSet (self.hdList.hdlist, self.instPath) rpm.error: error during upgrade check
I looked at it more closely and I believe that the bug is in the fs mounting section of the code not finding that the mount has failed (or simply "forgetting" to mount the partitions). The rpm error messages seems to be triggered by the impossibility to open the specified rpm db (since the fs has not been mounted). Btw, I believe the fs was not mounted because the mount command returned nothing about my main ext2 (on hda2) (didnt check in /proc/mount....) ------- Additional Comments From 10/15/99 06:26 ------- Same resaults doing a HD install or upgrade
Same thing here installing from CD-ROM (both GUI and text). My fstab looks like: /dev/hda3 / ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /home ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/backup ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda1 /win98-1 vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,umask=0 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /win98-2 vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=0 1 1 /dev/pda1 /mnt/shark ext2 noauto 0 0 From the bash shell during the install, I see that /dev/hda2 was mounted, but /dev/hda3 was not when the installer hangs.
The problem is that the mount code for upgrades is looking for the mouse options specified in fstab being "defaults" only. We are in the process of putting together a fix to this problem and will be posting that on the errata site as soon as the patch is ready and tested. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5768 ***