Bug 71985 - redhat-config-packages fails to start
Summary: redhat-config-packages fails to start
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-packages
Version: null
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-20 15:52 UTC by Carlos Morgado
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-21 14:17:26 UTC
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Description Carlos Morgado 2002-08-20 15:52:06 UTC 
Description of Problem:

redhat-config-packages fails to start.
it dies:
# redhat-config-packages 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 134, in ?
    im = method.CdromInstallMethod()
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py", line 323, in __init__
    discid.read(self.baseDir + "/.discinfo")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/discid.py", line 30, in read
    file = open (filename, 'r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/comps/i386/.discinfo'

the machine is cdrom-less.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-21 06:37:09 UTC 
Did you do an install via ftp/http?
Comment 2 Carlos Morgado 2002-08-21 08:46:01 UTC 
yes, booted bootnet from floppy and did a ftp install.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-21 14:04:25 UTC 
Grab RedHat/base/comps.rpm and install it and things will be happier; there was
a bug in the code pulling the package for ftp/http installs that didn't get
fixed for (null).  Some better error handling is needed for this case, though.
Comment 4 Carlos Morgado 2002-08-21 14:17:21 UTC 
the fix works for me.
Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-24 21:00:17 UTC 
And we now pop up an error dialog in this case instead of tracebacking as well
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