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Title: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: Monkey on July 21, 2002, 11:15:27 PM

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

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: guestHH on July 22, 2002, 04:50:57 AM

Hi,

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

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: Monkey on July 22, 2002, 12:39:42 PM

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

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: Michael Smith on July 23, 2002, 01:47:34 AM

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!

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: guestHH on July 23, 2002, 02:13:24 AM

Yeah, try the MS fdisk, preferable win95.

guestHH

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: Charlie Brady on July 23, 2002, 02:40:23 AM

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

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: Monkey on July 23, 2002, 03:29:57 AM

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!! ;)

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: Rich Lafferty on July 23, 2002, 08:27:53 AM

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

Title: Re: Install fails at "checking for older versions"
Post by: Rich Lafferty on July 23, 2002, 08:30:37 AM

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