Bug 86369 - Installer crashes while trying to upgrade from RH 7.2
Summary: Installer crashes while trying to upgrade from RH 7.2
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-20 19:45 UTC by Roland Roberts
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-21 15:53:11 UTC

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anaconda dump (116.55 KB, text/plain)
2003-03-20 19:46 UTC, Roland Roberts 		no flags Details
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Description Roland Roberts 2003-03-20 19:45:09 UTC 
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Description of problem:
While trying to upgrade a dual Pentium 233MMX system from RH7.2 to RH8.0,
anaconda crashes with the attached dump.  The upgrade option was selected, no
individual package selection.

System has dual 100GB drives in a RAID1 configuration, 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from CD
2. Walk through initial language/mouse/keyboard config
3. Select upgrade, no individual package selection
4. Crash....
    

Actual Results:  Crash....

Expected Results:  Should have installed packages.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Roland Roberts 2003-03-20 19:46:02 UTC 
Created attachment 90677 [details]
anaconda dump
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-03-21 15:53:11 UTC 
We do not ship an smp kernel that supports Pentium systems any longer. If you
want to upgrade to 8.0 you will need to remove the kernel-smp package, upgrade,
and build your own Pentium (i586) smp kernel.
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