Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5809
Upgrade 6.0->6.1 fails from ISO image
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
Downloaded ISO image from ftp.sunet.se. Seem to be the same as on ftp.redhat.com site (same date=Sep 27, same md5sum). Created a boot floppy from the "boot.img" and booted from it. Everything goes fine until the install of RPMs is supposed to begin. Nothing happens... MD5sum of image matches the one in the "md5sums" file. Verify of the burnt CDROM went ok. A look at Ctrl-Alt-F1 says (copied by hand): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed! Exception in thread Thread-3: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/python1.5/threading.py", line 276, in __bootstrap self.run() File "/mnt/redhat/comps/install/6.1/i386/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib /python1.5/site-packages/iw/progress.py", line 16, in run File "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/t odo.py", line 1512, in doInstall prob = "%-15s %d %c\n" % (mount, need, suffix) TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation
This error is the result of not having enough drive space for the upgrade. Now, that does not make the error correct, but at least it tells you why the error appeared. You might want to check and make sure that you have enough drive space for the upgrade. We will try to determine why this error is occurring.
I went round in circles about three times deleting stuff from the filesystem until it no longer complained that it there was not enough space. How much disk space (over and above the amount that it _claims_ it needs) does it _actually_ need?
*** Bug 6024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When installing from a local disk a python scripting error occurs on a second install attempt if the first install attempt failed because of a lack of free disk space. Scenario: 1. Select Packages to install 2. Install Screen determines you need an additional XX MB of space to proceed. 3. Press <Back> to uncheck some more packages which are not required 4. Select install and an error occurs because the device is in use. Python scripting error and you can select to drop in debug. --- Work around is to flip to F2 console and manually unmount the /tmp/hdimage after the installer determined there was not enough free space to install. I guess the fix would be to unmount the local disk partition when it is determined there is not enough space to install. This should be okay since the only option at this point is to press <Back>... There are other temporary mounts which are unmounted automatically... just not the /tmp/hdimage. The manual unmount worked successful. If the error occurs... the installer automatically reboots the machine after shutting everything down.
*** Bug 6402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1, possibly associate with some kind of mount error, definitely associated with customizing the list of packages to be installed, I got the following python traceback from the (very slick) new installer: Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed! Exception in thread Thread-3: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/python1.5/threading.py", line 376 in __bootstrap (? handwriting is garbled) self.run() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/iw/progress.py", line 16, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 1512 in doInstall prob = "%-15s %d %c\n" % (mount, need, suffix) TypeError: illegal argument type for builtin operation ------- Additional Comments From culliton@clark.net 10/26/99 19:28 ------- BTW - This is with the latest boot image from updates.rdehat.com and a local CD install. ------- Additional Comments From culliton@clark.net 10/26/99 19:46 ------- This may be a duplicate of #5809. Apologies. It takes a while to learn how to search for existing reports, you really have to submit one yourself to figure it out. ------- Additional Comments From 10/30/99 13:51 ------- Bugzilla item 6348 seems to be related as well.
I would agree with the fact that Bugzilla item 6348 is related. Seems that if there isn't enough disk space on a partition (I have a 10MB /boot), you'll get this error, even in the recently released updates disk. Bug 6348 points out the fact that need (from prob-"%-15s %d %c\n" % (mount, need, suffix) is a list (or is it a tupple?), when it really need to be number. Instead of getting the message that you don't have enough disk space, you get the exception. In my case when I used the debugger to print these values I got mount='/boot', need=(25,), suffix='k'. So from reading the code I deduced that it needed another 25k in boot to be free, so I simply rebooted to 6.0, removed the SMP stuff and started an upgrade. All went well.
This issue has been assigned to a developer for further action.
This issue is resolved in the latest installer (available in beta) and the drive space estimation has been improved in the new release.