Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6526
Fatal error in 6.1 bootnet FTP upgrade...
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:39:16 EST
After choosing a partition to upgrade on, the installer dies with a long list of errors. The fatal error is: "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py",line 201, in getresp IOError: [Errno ftp error] 500 'CWD ': command not understood. Only unusual circumstance is root is on a logical drive. (/dev/hda5)
I too have had this problem on EVERY single FTP install that I have tried of 6.1 In every case the FTP server has been a standard RH-included wu-ftpd from 6.0 or 6.1. I've installed to drives where the root partition was both logical and regular. Also, I've heard reports that this problem occurs on the Sparc version too. I have gotten around it by using NFS, but I am *very* disappointed in Red Hat for letting 6.1 go out the door with such poor testing. I've been using RH since the day RH 4.2 came out and RH 6.1 has been the worst by FAR. I hope this isn't representative of what we can expect from RH now that they are public :( And where were the simultanous releases for Sparc and Alpha along with i386 that used to occur? I've always liked RH as a company but if they don't get their act together with the quality I've come to expect by the next release I will begin seriously testing other distros...
This is a known bug in the installer which relates to putting trailing slashes "/" on the path to the source files. Basically, here is the upshot. You have to provide the fully-qualified domainname as well as the path to the source files without a trailing slash in order to get an FTP install to work. This bug will be fixed in the next errata release. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5553 ***