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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Abort an install during the package installation process 2. Start another install Actual Results: Anaconda offers to upgrade a system without even knowing what version it is. Shows '()' in place of '(Redhat something)' Expected Results: Ignore the partial install.
Unfortunately, we don't really have any better heuristics to check for what makes up an installation although I'm open to ideas. The current heuristic is the one that's been used on upgrades for a long time. We have improved the text on the screen, though, so that it's less problematic
Well, is this case the heuristic is simple: if we didn't even managed to find out what version of Red Hat was installed (as I told you, the screen showed '' as the distro version) you can't upgrade it. And how about creating a file, something like /root/install-in-progress, that only gets deleted if the install really ends? I guess this is fixable, and will confuse newbie users if they screw an install and try reinstalling ("Neat, I can recover my failed install").
You could have just done `cat /dev/null > /etc/redhat-release`. And, unfortunately, a lot of "security" sites recommend doing just that :(
msf made the handling of this a little nicer.
I'm going through Bugzilla closing some bugs that have been marked as Modified for some period of time. I believe that most of these issues have been fixed, so I'm resolving these bugs as Rawhide. If the bug you are seeing still exists, please reopen this report and mark it as Reopened.