Anaconda crashes trying to install Inkscape

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 11.12.2012 00:33, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 05:34 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
>>> There is something in the inkscape package that causes anaconda to
>>> stop
>>> installing.  When this happens the only alternative offered is to
>>> exit
>>> the installer.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't there be an option to skip the offending package(s) and
>>> continue?
>> Chuck, you are amazingly stubborn when it comes to creating bugzilla reports. But without them, we can't really fix anything. There are 1000 ways to run the installer, there are 1000 different hardware and software environments, there are 1000 different components running inside the installer, and without very detailed information and program logs it is almost impossible to find and fix the problem.
>>
>> Sorry.
>>
>> But if you do want to help, please:
>> 1. go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
>> 2. create an account
>> 3. report a bug against anaconda in Fedora 18
>> 4. provide all information that you can think of (how did you run the installer, what steps you took, if you noticed something weird in the process)
>> 5. attach logs from /tmp into the report
>> 6. (optionally) post a message here into test-list so that the bug gets discussed and generally gets more attention
>>
>> This is the way how to be helpful.
> The bug is known and already taken as a blocker -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873817 . I believe it is
> intentional that anaconda does not allow you to continue install after
> hitting a critical package error, as that could just make things worse.
I don't get the idea. Inkscape is not a core Linux package and it
shouldn't make installation of Fedora impossible. Imagine that you have
only one machine available for Linux installation and somewhere in the
middle installation fails and leaves you with unusable computer without
any idea what happened. If you continue installation, you can fix this
later.

Maybe there should be two groups of packages: important (core or
whatever) that must be installed and other (not important) that might
fail to install?


Mateusz Marzantowicz