anaconda - unhandled exception

[Richard Hally]

Running the boot.iso from rawhide (dated 1/14/08 8:12) to do a network install 
produces an "unhandled exception" while in the "retrieving installation 
information" phase (after formating the disk). In the screen to save the bug or 
debug information, the local disk is grayed out so nothing could be saved.

what now?

Richard

[Andrew Farris]

Richard Hally wrote:
>  Running the boot.iso from rawhide (dated 1/14/08 8:12) to do a
> network 
>  install produces an "unhandled exception" while in the "retrieving 
>  installation information" phase (after formating the disk). In the 
>  screen to save the bug or debug information, the local disk is grayed 
>  out so nothing could be saved.
>  
>  what now?
>  
>  Richard 
Wait for the next, this is in bugzilla already, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428709

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[Andrew Farris]

Richard Hally wrote:
>  Running the boot.iso from rawhide (dated 1/14/08 8:12) to do a
> network 
>  install produces an "unhandled exception" while in the "retrieving 
>  installation information" phase (after formating the disk). In the 
>  screen to save the bug or debug information, the local disk is grayed 
>  out so nothing could be saved. 
I should have mentioned, its often possible in that situation with the installer 
to go to the shell on vt2 and mount a flash drive to copy error output.

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[Richard Hally]

Andrew Farris wrote:
>  Richard Hally wrote:
> > Running the boot.iso from rawhide (dated 1/14/08 8:12) to do a network 
> > install produces an "unhandled exception" while in the "retrieving 
> > installation information" phase (after formating the disk). In the 
> > screen to save the bug or debug information, the local disk is grayed 
> > out so nothing could be saved.
> >
> > what now?
> >
> > Richard
>  
>  Wait for the next, this is in bugzilla already, see:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428709
>   
thanks! I should have checked bugzy first.
Richard

[Richard Hally]

Andrew Farris wrote:
>  Richard Hally wrote:
> > Running the boot.iso from rawhide (dated 1/14/08 8:12) to do a network 
> > install produces an "unhandled exception" while in the "retrieving 
> > installation information" phase (after formating the disk). In the 
> > screen to save the bug or debug information, the local disk is grayed 
> > out so nothing could be saved.
>  
>  I should have mentioned, its often possible in that situation with the 
>  installer to go to the shell on vt2 and mount a flash drive to copy 
>  error output.
>   
Thanks for the reminder about going to the VT.
Richard

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:49 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>  Richard Hally wrote:
>  > Running the boot.iso from rawhide (dated 1/14/08 8:12) to do a network 
>  > install produces an "unhandled exception" while in the "retrieving 
>  > installation information" phase (after formating the disk). In the 
>  > screen to save the bug or debug information, the local disk is grayed 
>  > out so nothing could be saved.
>  > 
>  > what now?
>  > 
>  > Richard
>  
>  Wait for the next, this is in bugzilla already, see:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428709 
Ran into same problem last night as well.  Except I was able to save the
debug output to a remote server (one beside me) in case needed (looks
like you already found out though).

One side note though, is X actually worked this time (ATI X1300 card),
and it could see the drives.  So moving in the right direction, least
compared to last few days.

Keep it up Jeremy, ya bout got it licked!

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"The best lil town on Earth!"

[Chris Lumens]

>  Keep it up Jeremy, ya bout got it licked! 
Not to be a jerk or anything, but you're aware at least five other
people work on anaconda, right?  In fact if you were to check out the
source history, you'd see that I committed the fix for that bug (the
libraries out of the nss package changed location, requiring us to
modify the stage2 build script) and that David built the version
containing the fix.

- Chris

[Rahul Sundaram]

Chris Lumens wrote:
> > Keep it up Jeremy, ya bout got it licked!
>  
>  Not to be a jerk or anything, but you're aware at least five other
>  people work on anaconda, right?  In fact if you were to check out the
>  source history, you'd see that I committed the fix for that bug (the
>  libraries out of the nss package changed location, requiring us to
>  modify the stage2 build script) and that David built the version
>  containing the fix. 
Having the team information listed and who does what might help

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda

Rahul

[Chris Lumens]

>  Having the team information listed and who does what might help
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda 
Good idea.  Fixed.

- Chris

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:45 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
>  > Keep it up Jeremy, ya bout got it licked!
>  
>  Not to be a jerk or anything, but you're aware at least five other
>  people work on anaconda, right?  
And I'm not even really around this month (other than sporadic looking
at email).  Luckily, we've got a team of other rock stars these days[1]
helping out on anaconda these days and it doesn't all just fall to me
anymore.

Jeremy

[1] And have for a while at this point.  Keep up Mike! :-)

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:45 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
>  > Keep it up Jeremy, ya bout got it licked!
>  
>  Not to be a jerk or anything, but you're aware at least five other
>  people work on anaconda, right?  In fact if you were to check out the
>  source history, you'd see that I committed the fix for that bug (the
>  libraries out of the nss package changed location, requiring us to
>  modify the stage2 build script) and that David built the version
>  containing the fix. 
NO, I was not aware there were others working on anaconda, or at least
as much as Jeremy does/used to.  I visited the page Rahul posted earlier
and see everyone that is listed. So to you ALL, keep up the good work
and hope to see/use an even nicer looking/working installer for the next
release.  For some reason, been dying to get back to using rawhide like
I used to, but have stayed away little longer this release due to x
upgrades and the like.  

Sooo, upon saying all that, what *is* the status of anaconda now?  Will
it do an install now at this point or is there a couple things still
broken?  Reallllyy thinking of trying another install again tonight, but
not sure yet.  Might file my taxes first then look into it in a little
while.

Keep up the good work Anaconda team!

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"The best lil town on Earth!"

[Andrew Farris]

Mike Chambers wrote:
>  On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 08:45 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
> >> Keep it up Jeremy, ya bout got it licked!
> > Not to be a jerk or anything, but you're aware at least five other
> > people work on anaconda, right?  In fact if you were to check out the
> > source history, you'd see that I committed the fix for that bug (the
> > libraries out of the nss package changed location, requiring us to
> > modify the stage2 build script) and that David built the version
> > containing the fix.
>  
>  NO, I was not aware there were others working on anaconda, or at least
>  as much as Jeremy does/used to.  I visited the page Rahul posted earlier
>  and see everyone that is listed. So to you ALL, keep up the good work
>  and hope to see/use an even nicer looking/working installer for the next
>  release.  For some reason, been dying to get back to using rawhide like
>  I used to, but have stayed away little longer this release due to x
>  upgrades and the like.  
>  
>  Sooo, upon saying all that, what *is* the status of anaconda now?  Will
>  it do an install now at this point or is there a couple things still
>  broken?  Reallllyy thinking of trying another install again tonight, but
>  not sure yet.  Might file my taxes first then look into it in a little
>  while.
>  
>  Keep up the good work Anaconda team!
>   
The 20080115 repo version of boot.iso and stage2.img worked in text mode for me 
today and its now 80% done with network install to vmware guest machine.  It may 
not finish that install, don't know yet, but all looks good so far.

-- 
Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com&gt; <ajfarris(a)gmail.com&gt;
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[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:06 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:

>  The 20080115 repo version of boot.iso and stage2.img worked in text
> mode for me 
>  today and its now 80% done with network install to vmware guest machine.  It may 
>  not finish that install, don't know yet, but all looks good so far. 
After the install tonight, or tomorrow, would you care to elaborate on
how it went, any major failures and/or nuiances post-install?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"The best lil town on Earth!"

[Andrew Farris]

Mike Chambers wrote:
>  On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:06 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>  
> > The 20080115 repo version of boot.iso and stage2.img worked in text mode for me 
> > today and its now 80% done with network install to vmware guest machine.  It may 
> > not finish that install, don't know yet, but all looks good so far.
>  
>  After the install tonight, or tomorrow, would you care to elaborate on
>  how it went, any major failures and/or nuiances post-install? 
It had an issue, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428927

Cannot unmount /mnt/source after downloading corrupt rpm.

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Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com&gt; <ajfarris(a)gmail.com&gt;
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[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

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Mike Chambers wrote:
>  Sooo, upon saying all that, what *is* the status of anaconda now? 
> Will
>  it do an install now at this point or is there a couple things still
>  broken?  Reallllyy thinking of trying another install again tonight, but
>  not sure yet.  Might file my taxes first then look into it in a little
>  while. 
I just finished a rawhide install with boot.iso on i686.
The only problems I had were the "New Firstboot" not being complete and
not having access to "cracklib"

Notting fixed the SELinux error on modprobe even without a bug report. :-)


>  
>  Keep up the good work Anaconda team!
>   
Yes, *ATTABOY* Good Job.

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[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:50 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:

>  I just finished a rawhide install with boot.iso on i686.
>  The only problems I had were the "New Firstboot" not being complete and
>  not having access to "cracklib"
>  
>  Notting fixed the SELinux error on modprobe even without a bug report. :-) 
How did the install go, during the package install part (packages
actually being installed)?  On an updated F8 spin the other day, the
time I clicked next to install the packages, it took 1.5 or so hours to
finish.  That is on a PIV 2.8Ghz 1G ram machine.  It's not slow, so
comparing I guess.  Of course, this is using nfs via boot.iso to a
dvd.iso image.  Oh, and no customizing, just the initial choice of
production/whatever that comes up, like 880 packages or something.

How long did yours take?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"The best lil town on Earth!"

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

Mike Chambers wrote:
>  On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:50 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>  
> > I just finished a rawhide install with boot.iso on i686.
> > The only problems I had were the "New Firstboot" not being complete and
> > not having access to "cracklib"
> >
> > Notting fixed the SELinux error on modprobe even without a bug report. :-)
>  
>  How did the install go, during the package install part (packages
>  actually being installed)?  On an updated F8 spin the other day, the
>  time I clicked next to install the packages, it took 1.5 or so hours to
>  finish.  That is on a PIV 2.8Ghz 1G ram machine.  It's not slow, so
>  comparing I guess.  Of course, this is using nfs via boot.iso to a
>  dvd.iso image.  Oh, and no customizing, just the initial choice of
>  production/whatever that comes up, like 880 packages or something.
>  
>  How long did yours take? 
Depending on how many packages I pick, 1.5 - 4 hours.  Machine is a
2.0GHz intel i686 box, 1GiB ram, NFS to local repository mirror.  About
the same.

They're supposed to be fixing the progress bar problem.

--
G.Wolfe Woodbury
Have you hugged your wolf today?