anaconda poor error handling
Chris Lumens
clumens at redhat.com
Wed Nov 9 21:52:47 UTC 2011
> Just tried (and failed) update f15->f16. Using dvd (most reliable method).
>
> Went fine until I hit an error, trying to update ipython. At this point,
> anaconda just quit. No hints given what the issue was. No offer to try to
> report the error.
>
> It mentioned that it _might_ be caused by a problem reading the media. Switch
> consoles, I saw no hint of an I/O error. My guess is it might have been a cpio
> error because I had a newer ipython installed via easy_install.
>
> After trying various strategies to rescue, I gave up and did clean install.
/tmp/anaconda.log, /tmp/syslog, and /mnt/sysimage/root/upgrade.log would
all be helpful things to see right now.
- Chris
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