From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Description of problem: anaconda terminates if it receives a 'connection refused' from ftp site on net install. since installs over ftp are typically done in our shop by mounting a cd for direct access, inetd/ftpd must be stopped to swap CDs. as late as version 7.3 anaconda would retry the request until the ftp server was restarted on the remote end. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.english install of 8.0 2. ftp install 3. start/stop remote ftp daemon when files on first cd have been installed. Actual Results: anaconda crashed, checking alternative output (alt-F3) showed that after a series of 'file not found' (normal) entries, it reported a 'connection refused' and aborted. Expected Results: should have tried to reconnect (as was the case in versions thru 7.x) Additional info: don't think this is system specific or specfic to upgrade vs. install. the biggest problem is that i now have a half upgraded server that i have to try to repair.
This is due to changes in how urllib in python 2.2 handles errors as opposed to urllib in python 1.5.
This is handled sanely in our current codebase (we retry five times, if it fails, pop up a dialog saying there might be a problem, but let you retry)
fix confirmed