Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6424
FTP install using updated bootnet/updates images fails
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:39:09 EST
System is a dual PIII Xeon system with 128 Meg memory and two 18G Ultra2 drives attached to the onboard Adaptec 7896 SCSI controller. Booted system from bootnet-RHEA-1999:044.img boot floppy, selected FTP install using DHCP, system retreived 2nd stage ramdisk from ftp server, asked for updates disk and properly loaded it. Proceeded with installation of 'custom system'. Everything went as normal until the 'Reading package information...' box came up. Immediately after, the following traceback appeared: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 255, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/tmp/updates/text.py", line 1009, in run rc = apply(step[1](),step[2]) File "/mnt/redhat/comps/install/6.1/i386/misc/src/trees/hdimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/textw/packages.py", line 10, in __call__ File "/tmp/updates.py", line 960, in getHeaderList selft.hdList = self.method.readHeaders() File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 45, in readHeaders url = urllib.urlopen(self.baseUrl + "/RedHat/base/hdlist") File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 59, in urlopen return _urlopener.open(url) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 157, in open return getattr(self,name)(url) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 370, in open_ftp self.ftpcache[key] = \ File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 559, in __inti__ self.init() File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 568, in init self.ftp.cwd(dir) File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 441, in cwd File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 233, in voidcmd File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 208, in voidresp File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 201, in getresp IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 i38: No such file or directory.
This is actually an error which was generated by your FTP server . . . at least that is what it looks like. You might want to check and make sure that the source files on the FTP server look good. Granted the installer should handle problems like this a little better, but a little poking around should get you installing again. Reopen if you are still not able to determine the problem.
I ran into this problem again while re-installing RH Linux 6.1 via FTP to the same server above. I received an identical traceback as well. Further investigation revealed that this error was generated ONLY when I did NOT place a leading '/' character on the path specification for the FTP server, i.e. pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386 instead of /pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386 With the leading slash the FTP install works fine. Without it, I get the error and traceback I originally submitted.