This seems to be the same old bug as 5555, 5944, 5875, 5789 I Downloaded the new boot-RHEA-1999:044.img and the install again and the same "Exception Occured" as follows Exception Occured Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 225, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/te xt.py", line 1000, in run rc=apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/mnt/redhat/comps/install/6.1/i386/ misc/src/trees/hdimage/usr/lib/pytho n1.5/site-packages/textw/packages.py "line 10, in _ _call_ _ File "tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/to do.py", line 930, in getHeaderList self.hdList= self.method.readHeaders() File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ha rddrive.py", line 45, in readHeaders isys.umount ("/tmp/hdimage") File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/is ys.py", line 8, in umount return_isys.umount (what) System Error: (16, 'Device or resource busy') OK Debug This was a Harddrive install from my "C" drive to my "D" drive. All non RedHat files (ftp) were removed from the RedHat directories including the RPM directory!
The same bug seems to be in boot-RHEA-1999:045.img. Reported as #6481. Sorry to add yet another bug report to the existing list. My original search missed these.
Hi, I've had this bug in the instalation of LINUX and some people advised me to check the RPMS directory for anny files not ending with .RPM I dis that and foun an log file from my FTP prog. deleted the file and tryed the install agean, it still did'nt work ( for some other people this did work !!) Then I compared the files in that dir with the files on the FTP site and found out that a file called HOWTO- corean..... something was'nt completly downloaded. I redownloaded this file and the install worked well !! so check your RPMS dir, it should be 555.198.893 bytes large, if it is'nt check your RPM files !!
As explained above all non RPM files were removed. Also each and every RPM was checked and compaired for size. All updated RPM's were retrieved from "RedHat's Site". The install was also tried using the new boot-RHEA-1999:045 with the following resaults: Exception Occured (Pdb) ignore Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 235, in ? pdb.post_mortem (tb) File "/var/tmp/pyton-root/usr/lib/python1.5/pdb.py", line 876, in post_mortem File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/pdb.py", line 113 in inneraction File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/cmd.py", line 77 , in interaction File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/cmd.py", line 115, in onecmd File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/pdb.py", line 371 in do_ignore Index Error: list index out of range install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending Kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime /tmp/hdimage /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system
Try downloading the RPMs again. It has been found that a corrupt RPM file can result in the bug you are seeing. There is information in bug #6438 which tells of checking the contents of the /RedHat/RPMS directory to verify that it is all there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6438 ***
Over Thanksgiving I have downloaded all the RPMS Again from RedHats site to made sure that they were good and got the same error.
zito appears to be having a different problem than the one that the rest of the people on the list are reporting. You appear to have a comps list with components for which there are not actual RPM files in /RedHat/RPMS Please send the first python exception that you are sending and I will take a look at it and see what I can glean from the message.
Here is the whole thing. It seems to be identical to the Error above now that I look at it. Once again this was using the Updates image by typing "linux updates text" after booting with the boot-RHEA-1999:045 on floppy made from rawrite. I choose "custom install", "hard drive install" and "Microsoft serial mouse". I setup Disk Drudge as follows hdb5 / 256mb hdb6 /usr 242mb hdb7 /home 242mb hdb8 /var 242mb hdb9 swap 64mb I then choose the option of installing the boot in the hdb. all seem to go well until it read the RPMs and then the followig: Exception Occured (Pdb) ignore Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 235, in ? pdb.post_mortem (tb) File "/var/tmp/pyton-root/usr/lib/python1.5/pdb.py", line 876, in post_mortem File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/pdb.py", line 113 in inneraction File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/cmd.py", line 77 , in interaction File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/cmd.py", line 115, in onecmd File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/pdb.py", line 371 in do_ignore OK Debug (hitting either of the above gives me the following) Index Error: list index out of range install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending Kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime /tmp/hdimage /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system (It stays there until I hit Ctrl, Alt, Del) Hope this helps, maybe I'll have to wait till the next version but in the mean time I have once again deleted the RPM directory on my C: drive and am now down loading it from RedHats sight, so it won't be until sometime tomarrow that I will be able to try another install. I will also delete the base directory and redown load that too.
After downloading the RPMS again and the base directories, I tried the install and got the exact same errors.
I tried to install 6.1 again today, got the above error and this time hit Ctrl Alt F4 (I think it might have been F3) and it said the following: * probing buses * finished bus probe * found nothing * 65 keymaps are available * loaded 9 keymap tables * going to insmod fat.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod vfat.o (path is NULL) * partition /dev/hda1 selected * mounting device hda1 as vfat * created inode * done loading 4194304 bytes * probing buses * finished bus probe * found sugesttion of Card:S3 ViRGE (generic) * found nothing * recursively coping /tmp/update-disk/lost+found * recursively coping /tmp/update-disk/iw * recursively coping /tmp/update-disk/textw * going to ismod raidO.o (path is NULL) * going to ismod raid1.o (path is NULL) * going to ismod raid5.o (path is NULL) * autopartitioning FAILED I hope this helps
How To Download Red Hat Linux 6.1 (http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html#download) says: Download the entire contents of ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/current/i386/RedHat/RPMS into the RedHat/RPMS directory that you just created. This should only include the rpm files and should explicitly exclude the files "ls-lR" and "ls-lR.qz" even though these files are in the RPMS. This probably should be clarified in the manual or the files should be removed from the directory. Otherwise you get the python errors described by this bug report. Also, I got python errors similar to the bug report's errors because my RedHat/base/comps contains ^M in addition to the \n. After looking at the debug I believe this is due to using windows ftp to do the transfer which seemed to insert the control M before the end of lines. Once I removed ^Ms the installed made it past the python errors.
It appears that you are not getting complete downloads. The "index out of range" error is generally thrown when the installer is looking for something which is actually not there. Try the latest RawHide and see if that installer has a better time.