From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 Description of problem: ananconda crashed during upgrade from CD-ROM, in the initial dialogs before installing any packages. I used text mode, English, US keyboard, USB mouse (3 buttons), no customize package list, upgrade 1 of 2 partitions (hda3 has RHL8.0 and no boot loader [use floppy instead]; hda5 has RHL7.3 and uses GRUB in MBR with hda1 as /boot), Skip boot loader updating, crash. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. CD-ROM boot from KRUD linux (tummy.com) 2002-12-01, which is RHL8.0 with all upgrades applied as of the 1st of each month. 2. boot "linux text"; English; US keyboard; USB mouse (3 buttons), no customize package list; upgrade 1 of 2 partitions 3. Skip boot loader updating Actual Results: Upgrade Boot Loader Configuration The installer is unable to detect the boot loader currently in use on your system. ( ) Update boot loader configuration (*) Skip boot loader updating ( ) Create new boot loader configuration [OK] Back An unhandled exception has occurred. 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/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 425, in run rc = apply(2in, (self.screen, ) + args) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/upgrade_bootloader _text.py", line 113, in __call__ self.bl.setDevice(self.bootDev) File "/usr/lib/booty/bootloaderInfo.py", line 206, in setDevice (dev, part) = getDiskPart(device) File "/usr/lib/booty/bootLoaderInfo.py", line 1231, in getDiskPart cut = len(dev) TypeError: len() of unsized object [OK] Save Debug Expected Results: Normal upgrade, no crash. Additional info: anacdump.txt will be attached.
Created attachment 88487 [details] anaconda crash dump
Fixed in CVS. For now, you can work around by selecting 'Create new boot loader configuration'
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.