Description of problem: Upon getting to the desktop, I doubleclicked the "Install to Hard Drive" icon, and nothing happened. This error happened when I tried running it in the alt-f2 menu Version-Release number of selected component: anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18 Additional info: cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/anaconda dso_list: python-libs-2.7.3-13.fc18.x86_64 executable: /usr/sbin/anaconda kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: __init__.py:916:_open:IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/anaconda.log' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 654, in <module> anaconda_log.init() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py", line 258, in init logger = AnacondaLog() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py", line 132, in __init__ minLevel=logging.DEBUG) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py", line 192, in addFileHandler logfileHandler = logging.FileHandler(file) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 897, in __init__ StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 916, in _open stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/anaconda.log' Local variables in innermost frame: self: <logging.FileHandler object at 0x161c7d0> Potential duplicate: bug 861584
Created attachment 687077 [details] File: backtrace
Created attachment 687078 [details] File: core_backtrace
Created attachment 687079 [details] File: environ
This is caused by starting the live installer multiple times, but I thought anaconda-cleanup would take care of the pre-existing logs problem.
Created attachment 734520 [details] exit immediately if not running as root Proper exception handling could help with this particular bug, by why exit later, rather than sooner, if it's not running as root anyway, right?
Anaconda should be patched to either handle this exception, or exit prior to this occurring if it is not running with elevated privileges. That seems to be the intention expressed by lines 660-662 in the current /sbin/anaconda source version, anyway. So I've submitted a patch (diff -u) that will simply cause anaconda to exit immediately if it is not being run as root. In regards to this bug, it's better for it to exit right away, rather than later on, after an attempt has been made to initialize the logging subsystem - because by then, it's already too late.
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