Bug 865325 - bug reporting from text mode doesn't work
Summary: bug reporting from text mode doesn't work
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vratislav Podzimek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: fedora19rtt
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-11 08:50 UTC by Jiri Moskovcak
Modified: 2015-02-01 22:55 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-19.2-1
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-05-12 17:04:55 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jiri Moskovcak 2012-10-11 08:50:18 UTC
Description of problem:
Recently i ran into a problem during the installation from text mode and anaconda just died with an exception without giving me a chance to use the reporting tool to report the bug to bugzilla, so I had to do it manually (rhbz#865291)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tested with nightly builds:
20121009
20121010

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
- described in #865291
  
Actual results:
- the exception is just printed on screen, but there is no way to report it to bugzilla

Expected results:
- the report tool kicks in, asks for bz credentials and creates the bz ticket with all required logs

Additional info:
- not sure if this is problem with the new text mode not using the python-meh or in libreport

Comment 1 Vratislav Podzimek 2012-10-11 09:04:16 UTC
It was decided that text mode in F18 is really minimalistic and bug reporting will be available in F19.

Comment 2 Martin Banas 2012-10-12 08:59:21 UTC
Hello,

would it be at least possible for F18 not to reboot the machine if traceback happens? If it's not a hard task, it would really help with debugging.

Thanks.

Comment 3 Vratislav Podzimek 2012-10-12 09:09:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hello,
> 
> would it be at least possible for F18 not to reboot the machine if traceback
> happens? If it's not a hard task, it would really help with debugging.
> 
> Thanks.
'nokill' boot option should prevent reboot. Until we have some better exception handling (with bug reporting) in text mode, I'm afraid this is the only option.

Comment 4 Jesse Keating 2012-10-17 21:21:49 UTC
We /might/ make textmode default to nokill, because there is no way to report the errors.  Hopefully for F19 we'll have some way to do error reporting in text mode.

Comment 6 Vratislav Podzimek 2013-01-15 13:37:58 UTC
Patches for python-meh and anaconda posted to anaconda-patches.

Comment 7 Adam Williamson 2013-05-12 17:04:55 UTC
As it happens, I tried this the other day, and I was able successfully to file a traceback from text mode. Closing.


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