The subject message sometimes appears on the installation source entry from anaconda. But I have never been able to find a good way to learn just what the error is. Sure, sometimes it's obvious: the URL is wrong. But other times everything seems to be correct but still the error persists. I'm looking for a checklist of possible causes or a log entry that corresponds to the problem.
In my present effort, I'm attempting to use a local mirror of the fedora-updates repository (in addition to local mirrors of the fedora and other repositories). I believe the mirror is correct and complete. The machine being installed has no trouble accessing the repo from an F2 shell while anaconda is running. Looking through the anaconda logs, I find lots of references to the update repository but no errors.
What can cause this error message? And how do I find out what caused it in this instance?
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:35:39 -0800 CLOSE Dave Dave.Close@us.thalesgroup.com wrote:
The subject message sometimes appears on the installation source entry from anaconda. But I have never been able to find a good way to learn just what the error is. Sure, sometimes it's obvious: the URL is wrong. But other times everything seems to be correct but still the error persists. I'm looking for a checklist of possible causes or a log entry that corresponds to the problem.
In my present effort, I'm attempting to use a local mirror of the fedora-updates repository (in addition to local mirrors of the fedora and other repositories). I believe the mirror is correct and complete. The machine being installed has no trouble accessing the repo from an F2 shell while anaconda is running. Looking through the anaconda logs, I find lots of references to the update repository but no errors.
What can cause this error message? And how do I find out what caused it in this instance?
I think anaconda is a python application, so you should be able to get the source code and search it for the error message. You can find the src.rpm here. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2
If you then install the rpmbuild dependencies # sudo dnf install rpmdevtools you should be able to do rpmdev-setuptree rpm -ivh [anaconda src.rpm package name] # as user, *not* root cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS rpmbuild -bp anaconda.spec cd ../BUILD/[anaconda version] and be in the source.
There used to be a wiki page describing how to do this for src rpm at fedoraproject.org. All I find is the following on how to build a kernel. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
There is a special mailing list for anaconda development. You can read it on gmane.org, gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel. I don't see the signup address, but you can probably find it with a search. If you open a bugzilla against anaconda with your problems at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ it will probably get to those developers.
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