Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65493
Installer crash "IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory" on upgrade 7.2 -> 7.3
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: Anaconda reports unhandled exception: error log written to floppy. File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 144, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 209, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py", line 417, in upgradeFindPackages for line in f.readlines(): IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory I would attach the complete log file if the buzilla form offered that option :-( How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from 7.3 installation 1 CD. 2. Choose upgrade and then customize. 3. Wait for unhandled exception report Actual Results: Exception reported Additional info: Appears to be trying to read /etc/sysconfig/i18n After re boot into 7.2, $ ls -ld /etc/sysconfig/i18n/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 14 2001 /etc/sysconfig/i18n/ $ ls -l /etc/sysconfig/i18n/ total 0
Created attachment 58525 [details] anacoda/python dump file
Deleting /etc/sysconfig/i18n and trying again is a work around.
Do you know why the i18n entry was a directory? We have not shipped it this way in the past.
No, I don't know what created /etc/sysconfig/i18n But I remember hitting this same problem on at least one other machine when upgrading in the past, perhaps from 7.2 --> 7.2. Since I deleted the directory then, I am pretty sure that some rpm is creating it. I sometimes install RPMs not from Redhat sites, and maybe one of them is responsible. But one of my first actions after the problem was "rpm -qf /etc/sysconfig/i18n" and I got no hits. Is it a big problem to add the check to anaconda?
Well to wrap every place we create/open/read/write a file would be alot of work. TO be honest this is the first time I've seen this issue. If I start to see more we'll reconsider addressing this issue.