From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: I have a floppy that I have built a custom ks.cfg. When Ananconda start to do the build it crashes and performs a dump. I am able to install it find it I choose the same options via the interactive install. It usually crashes after it tries to do the hardware probe. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install ks.cfg on floppy 2. issue a linux ks=floppy at the boot prompt 3. it would read the information from the floppy and try to act on it. Actual Results: Every time it would crash and present an anaconda error Expected Results: It should have continued the installation and rebooted Additional info: Here is the KS.cfg file I am using: # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. autostep install lang en_US langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us mouse generic3ps/2 --device psaux text skipx network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted $1$vC5C=CofC9k$E5EzZKv9/iB/VqgOa6pic0 firewall --high --dhcp --port http:tcp --port ssh:tcp authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone America/New_York bootloader --location=mbr # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work clearpart --linux --drives=sda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda part / --fstype ext3 --size=700 --grow --ondisk=sda part swap --size=128 --grow --maxsize=256 --ondisk=sda %packages -ash -lrzsz -isdn4k-utils -lilo -raidtools -wvdial -ed -setserial -minicom vim-enhanced nmap -wireless-tools -yp-tools -ypbind -rsh -rsync -rdate -rdist -tcpdump -talk -rp-pppoe -net-snmp -net-snmp-utils -irda-utils -gnome-libs -htmview -redhat-menus -redhat-logos -kernel-pcmcia-cs -imlib -gtk+ -esound -audiofile -libungif -XFree86-libs -XFree86-Mesa-libGL -hotplug -usbutils -aspell -pspell -ppp -nfs-utils -portmap -dump -rmt -autofs -ORBit -at %post /sbin/chkconfig kudzu off /sbin/chkconfig sendmail off /sbin/chkconfig netfs off /sbin/chkconfig apmd off
Created attachment 80064 [details] Dump file from anaconda
I am getting the error after Anaconda has flashed "reading packages" on the screen. Here is the error: Exception Occured An unhandled exception has occured. This is most likely a bug. Please copy the full text of this exception or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 694, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/bin/anaconda/text.py", line 402, in run (step, args) = dispatch.currentStep()
Okay, sorry, ID10T error. I had misspelled a name in the list of install files. I spelled htmview instead of htmlview. Anaconda did not know what to do with the file so it croaked. I looked at the dump file a little better and found it. It seems to work now. I would suggest that an addition is made to anaconda such that if a misspelled package is put in the ks.cfg file that a note like "File not found" or "No such package" is displayed instead of crashing.