Found an interesting bug while upgrading from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2 beta. While doing the graphical install, everything was going on just fine until I entered the "Install System Updates" step. (While it's downloading the files, it really needs some way of notifying the user that it is downloading files. I only knew from my cable modem lights blinking.)
Anyways - at that stage of the install it asks me to reinsert Disc 1 (Disc 2 was in the CD-ROM at the time), which it just kept refusing the CD. So I thought I'd hit CTRL-ALT-F3 and see what interesting info would be provided to me. This is what I get, repeating each time I did 'retry' for reading the CD: calling mount(/dev/hdc, /tmp/image, iso9660, 3236757505,) getFile passwd-0.64.1-9.1mdk.i586.rpm errorOpeningFile: passwd-0.64.1-9.1mdk.i586.rpm getFile XXX: calling umount(/tmp/image) accepting medium 1 So I then went back to the install screen and hit cancel instead of trying to get the install to accept the CD. At this point the entire installer halted and I couldn't do anything. The magical CTRL-ALT-F3 screen gave me this beautiful info: * default cancel_clicked * refusing medium 1 * bad package passwd-0.64.1-9.1mdk.i586 * bad package htdig blah blah and a few more packages * opened rpm database for retry transaction of 1 package only * rpmRunTransactions start * getFile passwd-0. .... :Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.1 * getting crypto file passwd .. on directory /pub/linux/distributions/mandrakeupdates/8.1/RPMS with login * getFile XXX: * calling umount (/tmp/image) * warning: error unmount /tmp/image: Invalid argument @ /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line645. If that was any use. Also, hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 gave me this interesting info as well regarding the state of the installer... * Entering step 'Install sstem updates' * perl: rpmio_internal.h:410: c2f: Assertion 'fd&& fd->magic == 0x04463138' failed. * Xlib: sequence lost (0x30000 > 0x249cb) in reply type 0x0! I avoided this whole mess by not doing the System Update portion of the install. I think this whole mess occured cause it tried to look for 8.1 rpms and I was installing 8.2beta. Anyways - I tried this whole thing on my machine again, and the whole problem occured again. Hopefully this was enough detail for you. :-) -- Nicholas Bolibruch (aka: aFXGRiN)
