Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64724
Installer crashes on upgrade just before packages are installed
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 Description of problem: When performing an upgrade from a RedHat 7.2 system, the installer croakes and spits out some python error message and allows you to dump to a floppy. This happens between the dependancy check and the actual application of the packages. The system then reboots and ends up in the same 7.2 state that it was in when you started the upgrade. I've attached the dump. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.begin upgrade from 7.2. 2.go through dependancy check. Actual Results: a stack trace and error box came up and asked to save to disk. Expected Results: It should have applied the packages and completed the upgrade. Additional info:
Created attachment 56884 [details] Anaconda Dump File
Is /root a symlink on your system?
Yes it is a symlink, and not only that but the link points to a directory on a different partition, which is not getting mounted beneath /mnt/sysimage. I guess that would explain this message in the anaconda dump: No such file or directory: '/mnt/sysimage/root/upgrade.log' So this error would seem to be a problem how I have /root set up, and so doesn't necessairily require a proper fix, but you would think that it could at least fail more gracefully than dumping the whole upgrade. Maybe choose another location for the log like /mnt/sysimage/upgrade.log or /mnt/sysimage/var/log/upgrade.log, being more tenacious about mounting things under /mnt/sysimage, or even just forgetting the log all together would be better than abandoning the whole deal. A litttle robustness never hurt, right?
Correct - I've added '/root' to the list of directories that we check are not links before proceeding. It had not previously been in the list. Thanks for catching our oversight. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64592 ***