From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: This is a bug for null (9.0 beta) and not for Redhat 7.3. After installing using a network based install, I cannot start the package manager. It dies giving the error message [root@120pc222 root]# 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' [root@120pc222 root]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install null using network based install 2.Start the package manager 3. Additional info:
The comps package (from RedHat/base/comps.rpm) wasn't being installed on ftp/http installs. If you install it, then redhat-config-packages should start fine. Current versions give a better error message in this case as well.