F17 self-built boot.iso queries

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 13:54 +0530, Amit Saha wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 07:48 +0530, Amit Saha wrote:
> >
> >> Here is the screenshot of the screen [1]. I was hoping to work around
> >> it to do a fresh install by clicking on "Continue Install", but from
> >> what I remember now, the Installer crashed, and I attempted to save
> >> the logs, for which it attempted to connect to the Network, but which
> >> never succeeded. I shall attempt to try this again and retrieve more
> >> information.
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] https://twitter.com/#!/echorand/status/199682569703407616/photo/1/large
> >
> > Ah. 'product mismatch' there means you had a 32-bit system installed and
> > booted the 64-bit installer, or vice versa, I believe. The installer
> > crash may well not have been related, but if you couldn't save logs,
> > it's difficult to tell. :/ It would be interesting to know if you can
> > recreate the failure by doing the same thing again.
> 
> Please find a screenshot of the exception/bug [1] when I click on the
> "Continue" button after the previous error dialog box. Sorry, but once
> again I tried to save the log and the network configuration step
> didn't quite work. (That's probably another investigation required).
> It seems like a Dbus exception.

You should be able to get a copy of the traceback and logs from /tmp if
you go to the ctrl-alt-f2 console when you hit the error. You can just
copy them to a manually-mounted USB stick, or bring up the network
manually and fpaste them out, I guess.
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