BUG in Anaconda, it seems -- more, maybe

[Todd Denniston]

Beartooth wrote, On 05/21/2008 11:35 AM:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:42:57 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
> 
>> I tried to install F9 onto an oldish ASUS, which was already
>> triple-booting F8, Centos5, and Ubuntu7.10 (which upgraded itself, with
>> a little help from me, to 8.whatever this week).
>>
>> 	It went happily on for hours, and was apparently installing
>> Tomboy (God knows why; I don't use it, and thought I had pirutted it
>> away long ago) -- when it hit an unhandled exception, "probably a bug."
> 	[...]
>> 	So I haven't filed the bug report, can't, and won't -- afaik,
>> it's gone, lost in cyberspace. I can't even boot that machine to Fedora
>> any more. [....]
> 
> 	I am now on that machine, running Ubuntu 8.04 on another 
> partition. I have done the following (knowing F8 to be, or have been, 
> installed on /dev/sda3). I see a couple of new things; if any look to be 
> of any use, let me know what to do and how, and I'll try to get what info 
> I can.

<SNIP>
> root at SblzUb:/TEST# ls
> bin   Grubberies  lost+found  net                   root     sys   var
> boot  halt        media       opt                   sbin     TEST
> dev   home        misc        proc                  selinux  tmp
> etc   lib         mnt         rhinstall-stage2.img  srv      usr
> root at SblzUb:/TEST#  file rhinstall-stage2.img
> rhinstall-stage2.img: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.1, 
> 106729893 bytes, 12005 inodes, blocksize: 131072 bytes, created: Wed May  
> 7 21:52:33 2008
> root at SblzUb:/TEST# 
> 
> 
> 	To the best of my knowledge and belief, "halt" and "rhinstall-
> stage2.img" are new -- and both show up a different color on my screen 
> than most of the rest. I'm not sure whether anything else is new. 
> 
> 	I'm thinking that rhinstall thing (note the date!), whatever it 
> is, *might* just maybe still contain the bug report, or at least 
> something of interest to those who understand such things. But all I know 
> of .img files is that I have seen that suffix somewhere before.
> 

If no one else pipes up, my suggestions would be:
A) strings rhinstall-stage2.img |less
	and see if it looks like your bug report.
B) cp rhinstall-stage2.img rhinstall-stage2.img.test
    mount -oro,loop rhinstall-stage2.img.test /mnt/
assuming Squashfs is built into your Ubuntu kernel.

-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter