F9 Beta install improperly handles error condition

[Andrew Farris]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> shmuel siegel wrote:
>> I have a scratched DVD. When I hit continue from the test dialog box I 
>> quickly got an Error dialog box which only had an OK button. Pressing 
>> this button retried the install which of course failed with the same 
>> dialog box. Removing the DVD didn't change anything.The only way out 
>> of this infinite loop was a hard reboot. There should be other 
>> recovery options.
> 
> I found that the continue button after testing my F9 beta i386 DVD 
> (which passed the test) also ejected the disk and showed that same empty 
> 'OK' dialog.  The system had to restart, then I inserted the disk again, 
> and this time did not test.
> 
> So that problem happens if you pass the test or not.  In the past I 
> think that the buttons available at that point in anaconda were 
> different, where you had to eject the current disk before continuing 
> whether it passed the test or not.  You then got the choice to continue 
> or test another disk.  If you continued you had to reinsert the first 
> disk.  This weird dialog may be a problem in how that was changed for 
> single DVD disk tests rather than testing multiple disks?

I forgot to mention that the errors shown in console for anaconda while that 
'OK' dialog was shown (before I restarted the machine) indicated that it had 
failed to mount the ISO image, but unfortunately I didn't capture any of those 
messages.  I think it was a post-test mount that failed, but can't be sure since 
I didn't check the console until it had failed.

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