Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 63967
Installer crashes while formatting /boot filesystem
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; DigExt; Q312461) Description of problem: When creating the boot sector file system, an unhandled exception is raised and the installer exits. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Graphical installer from CD boot menu 2. Complete Installation preferences 3. Begin installation of RedHat Actual Results: Error: Unhandled Exception (Says it is probably a bug) Installation exits, system reboots Expected Results: Installation of RedHat Linux 7.2 Additional info:
I recreated the error and documented it as follows: 1) Workstation installation in graphical mode 2) Auto Partition; manually set /root partition to 6999 Mb, Fixed Size (This partition is an empty 40Gb hard drive on IDE2 as Slave, primary hard drive is IDE1 as Master) 3) Selected GRUB boot loader 4) Selected: Install boot loader on first sector of boot partition 5) 2 boot devices: Default /dev/hdb2 ext3 RedHat Linux /dev/hdc1 ntfs Windows 6) Selected Default Firewalls, medium security 7) Selected all Package Groups 8) Selected nVidia GeForce2 MX (generic) video device 9) Confirmed Install 10) Installer formatted / Filesystem 11) Installer: Formatting /boot Filesystem *Here's where the error came in. Unhandled exception, here's the error message: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 620, in ? inft.run(id,dispatch,configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 350, in run self.icw.run(self.runres, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 778, in run mainloop() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk,py", line 2608, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 497, in handleReaderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/program_gui.py", line 135, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 399, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 143, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(Args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 434, in doPreInstall method.mergeFullHeaders(id.hdlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 26, in MergeFullHeaders method.mergeFullHeaders(self.tree + "/RedHat/base/ln/list2" File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.psy", line 161, in MergeFullHeaders rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist, fd, 1000004) rpm.error: match tag mismatch Installer exits, prompts for system reboot.
Could you attach the remainder of the crash dump file?
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional comments to add to this bug.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.