I strongly suspect that, within the installer, when anaconda makes use of the report library, there is no access to any config files (because there is no root file system to get config files from). In any case the report library should be able to run even if all it's config files are inaccessible. To do this we need to make two changes: all places where config files are read, need to be able to recover if the files are not there, or if the files are unreadable, or any other error reading them. we need to mark in some machine readable way, the set of 'default' plugins that should be usable (by report) if the primary /etc/report.conf file is not readable. Plugins should only be marked this way if they can be run without configuration.
This is fixed in the fedoraproject src repo.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle. Changing version to '14'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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