F10-beta on Lenovo W700 - Success

[Robert G. (Doc) Savage]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:12 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:14 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 01:05 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 23:24 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > > > Has anyone else tried to install F10-beta/x86_64 on Lenovo's new W700
> > > > super-laptop? After anaconda finishes checking package selections for
> > > > dependencies, it throws an unhandled exception.
> > > 
> > > Okay, but what was the exception/traceback? Without knowing that, it's
> > > nearly impossible to guess what happened here.
> > > 
> > > The only thing I can suggest without that info is that you try again
> > > with the most recent snapshot build, from
> > > http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ or
> > > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/
> > 
> > That's the problem. Since no packages get installed, the system can't
> > send the traceback log to bugzilla. (Bit of a chicken/egg situation.)
> > I've attached a manual transcription of perhaps the first 10%. It'll
> > take me several days to finish the rest.
> 
> The most important part is the traceback - this top bit:
> 
> anaconda 11.4.1.40 exception report
> Traceback (most recent call first):
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/network.py", line 529, in write
>     if dev.tet('GATEWAY'):
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1469 in doPreInstall
>     anaconda.id.network.write(andaconda.rootPath)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/backend.py", line 258, in doPreInstall
>     anaconda.backend.doPreInstall(anaconda)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 204, in moveStep
>     rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 127, in gotoNext
>     self.moveStep()
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1349, in nextClicked
>     self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/ow/progress_gui.py", line 79, in
> renderCallback
>     self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1370, in handleRenderCallback
>     self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'dev' referenced before assignment
> 
> Don't worry about recopying the rest unless bits of it are specifically
> needed. I'd suggest filing a bug report with the traceback and your
> lspci output. 
> 
> Keep in mind that the first thing that will be asked is: "Have you tried
> using a more recent snapshot?" So you might want to try that first, if
> possible.

Will,

Last night I downloaded the Snap 3 DVD ISO, and tonight I installed it
successfully. It's beta and imperfect, but Snap 3 brings F10 to the new
W700. Thanks for pointing me toward the snapshot spins.

--Doc