Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88582
Installer crashes when doing something with Lilo
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: Here's the stack trace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 936, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 155, in renderCallBack self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 761, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 157, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 225, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/bootloader.py", line 118, in writeBootloader justConfigFile, intf) File "/usr/lib/booty/bootloaderInfo.py", line 1029, in write justConfig | (self.useGrubVal)) File "/usr/lib/booty/bootloaderInfo.py", line 910, in writeLilo config.delEntry("default") File "/usr/lib/booty/lilo.py", line 120, in delEntry del self.items[item] File "/usr/lib/booty/lilo.py", line 38, in __delitem__ del self.data[key] KeyError: default I was upgrading from RH7.3. I had an older LILO installed (either that, or no particular boot loader since this is a single boot system)....most likely I already had LILO installed...most definitely not GRUB. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RH9 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: If possible, set up a system that doesn't have a boot loader but is an upgrade from RH7.3. If such a configuration isn't possible, it means I must've had the RH7.3 LILO, so use that. Then upgrade to RH9. Actual Results: Got the stack trace and installer exited. Expected Results: Installer should've upgraded LILO nicely. Additional info:
Could you attach the original lilo.conf file?
I can't give you the lilo.conf; I had to modify it to re-install Lilo. It's most likely the case that my lilo.conf didn't have a "default=linux" line or something. It is a single boot system, and there was probably only one image section, so I probably didn't have a "default" line. But that's speculation based on the error message -- I don't have the old lilo.conf. Sorry.
Fixed in CVS
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.