Topic: Install fails at "checking for older versions"

[Monkey]

Hi all,

I downloaded the latest SME server and when I tried to intall it reported an internal error when it was checking to see if it needed to do an upgrade. I saved the report thing and this is it:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1040, in run
    rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/esmith_text.py", line 571, in __call__
    rc = apply (UpgradeExamineWindow(), (1, screen, todo))
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/esmith_text.py", line 357, in __call__
    [ _("Back") ], width = 65)
TypeError: too many arguments; expected 3, got 4

Local variables in innermost frame:
dir: 1
self:
todo:
parts: [('hda4', 'ext2'), ('hdb1', 'ext2')]
screen:
code:

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'esmith_custom'
p3
I0
sS'autodetect_upgrade_failed'
p4
I0
sS'method'
p5
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p6
(dp7
S'progressWindow'
p8



Is this because of a bad download, the md5sum check was ok. Or is this because SmoothWall was intalled on it previously, or is it something else?

Thanks
KM

[guestHH]

Hi,

Try formatting the drive so it's clean before installing.

Regards,
guestHH

[Monkey]

I will try that - but what shall I use to format it? the usual dos format thing?

[Michael Smith]

How about the utilites that the drive maker provides?  Western Digital, for instance, has a utility that will completely zero out the drive ... that oughtta do it!

[guestHH]

Yeah, try the MS fdisk, preferable win95.

guestHH

[Charlie Brady]

Michael Smith wrote:

> How about the utilites that the drive maker provides?
> Western Digital, for instance, has a utility that will
> completely zero out the drive ... that oughtta do it!

No need for that. If Smoothwall is still on it, boot that, get to a root shell prompt, then do:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

You'll then have a completely zeroed drive.

Charlie

[Monkey]

Oh dudes,

Didnt see your those last three massages in time.

I used fdisk (win98) and just deleted all of the partitions.

And the installation went without a glitch.

Thanks for all your help.

P.S. The bug report dude said it was to bad CD burn!!

[Rich Lafferty]

Monkey wrote:
>
> P.S. The bug report dude said it was to bad CD burn!!

Since we receive hundreds of bug reports per year with the same symptoms
that you reported, and yours is the second of those that I can remember that
*wasn't* from a badly-burned CD, that strikes me as a reasonable thing to
have suggested.

Some bugs are harder to catch than others. (And note that we caught it.)

Cheers,

--Rich

[Rich Lafferty]

Rich Lafferty wrote:
>
> Since we receive hundreds of bug reports per year with the
> same symptoms that you reported

Oy, serves me right for replying when I should be sleeping.  That should
have read "... hundreds of bug reports, and dozens with the same ...".

Cheers,

--RIch