Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7879
Installation Exception Error - Traceback occured
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:40:11 EST
A problem that many people have had, but no one seems to know how to fix or get around this problem. Nothing to help in the FAQs, Errata, RedHat 6.1 Gotchas, newsgroups, etc. Not even in the updated installation images. I've tried all methods, boot, updates, bootnet. Same errors. This problem occurs while initializing package installation (boot cdrom, hard drive install, and net install); even with updated boot images. RedHat 6.1 Gotchas reports faulty RPM package in pythlon and to try another mirror. I've tried RedHat 6.1 Official CD x86, ftp.redhat.com and ftp.cdrom.com, all have the same installation exception/crash. Reported details are below. My guess is that install images for 6.1 incorrectly identify a Diamond Viper 550 (Nvidia Riva TNT based chipset) as a Nvidia Riva 128 chipset. While setting up....a traceback error occurs. The user/installer cannot change the probed chipset (not even in expert mode); like it was possible with 6.0. > Hi ! and thanks for any help ! > > I'm trying to install RedHat Linux 6.1. > I download the directory i386 and all its sub's, and I > use loadlin to start the process. > It all worked fine .... disk druild, ...... ,add user, but then > I get a message looks like: > > Traceback (innermost last): > file "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", > line 225, in ? > intfr.run(todo, test=test) > file "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", > line 1000, in run > rc=apply (step[1](),step[2]) > . > . > . > .and more.... > > at the end of the message I can choose : debug or exit. I have the same problem on an Abit BH6 mobo with IDE hard drive and CDROM. I also have a TNT video card. I cannot find anything to help me with this problem. RedHat 6.1 installed flawlessly (except for known install bugs) on my ASUS P2B-S with SCSI hard drive and CDROM. With a Voodoo3 3000 video card.
I've experienced what I think is a similar error in installing 6.1. The rest of the traceback loop from what was written above for me is: ... File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 468, in __call__ todo.getCompsList() File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 942, in getCompsList self.getHeaderList() File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 930, in getHeaderList self.hdList = self.method.readHeaders() File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/harddrive.py", line 46, in readHeaders return Headerlist(h1) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/comps.py", line 50, in __init__ name = h[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME] TypeError : unscriptable object Hopefully this provides solvable information. If anything else is needed, let me know. I'll try downloading from a different mirror from what I did before, if it happens that this is just a bad download.
Whoops, I just found a message (8683) that had my error. I had to delete "ls- lr" from my RPMS directory.
I would actually need you to post the reminder of that traceback that you are getting. The traceback shows the stuff on the stack when the error occurred, so the end of the traceback actually shows what went wrong. Without it, I cannot even hesitate to guess what your problem is.
Closing due to lack of activity.