Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88829
Anaconda (installer) crashes when reading package information
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:02 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.9 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: I just can't upgrade my RH 8 to 9. I haven't tried fresh install-option. I've tried EVERY option prior crash (not so many, text-install, different mouse types, bootloader options..). The mediacheck is PASS and md5sums are correct. The most important point here is that I've installed with these CD's to other computers so the problem is related to my 8.0 install and the installer. I've uninstalled all the Ximian packages. The installer crashes soon after "Reading package information" and a pop-up pops suggesting to save the dump. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose language (english) 2. Choose keyboard (Finnish, latin1) 3. Choose bootloader option 4. Choose upgrade and customize packages (or not) Actual Results: Installer starts to examine the packages installed and crashes with the text "This is most likely a bug ..." and suggests to take the dump and forward it to Bugzilla. Expected Results: 1 hour of upgrading ;) Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 739, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 459, in run 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/upgrade.py", line 331, in upgradeFindPackages method.mergeFullHeaders(id.hdList) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 50, in mergeFullHeaders hdlist.mergeFullHeaders(self.tree + "/RedHat/base/hdlist2") File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 180, in mergeFullHeaders rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist, fd, 1000004) IndexError: list index out of range Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderListFromFile instance at 0x87793ec> fd: 36 file: /mnt/source/RedHat/base/hdlist2 ...
If you look on VC4 (cntl-alt-f4) when this error occurs do you see any error messages from the kernel about read errors from the CD? This is definately a CD related issue. It either the drive or the media or the combination. CDs are known to pass the mediacheck and fail later if they are just borderline.
Yes, the screen is full of error messages related to CD (or hdc). Just a few lines but the rest is quite the same. <4> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1064660 <4>: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReadySeekComplete Error} <4>: cdrom_decode_status: error = 0x30 LastFailedSense 0x30
Those are CD read errors. I would recommend trying a diffrent CD drive in the machine or burning the images on a different brand of media. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.