Are You Seeing Python Errors - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual

40 Appendix D. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
D.2.3. Other Partitioning Problems
If you are using Disk Druid to edit partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably have
not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid's dependencies to be satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
A (root) partition
•
/
A swap partition of type swap
•
 
Tip
When defining a partition's type as swap, you do not have to assign it a mount point. Disk Druid
automatically assigns the mount point for you.
D.2.4. Are You Seeing Python Errors?
During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the installation program (also
known as anaconda) may fail with a Python or traceback error. This error may occur after the selection
of individual packages or while trying to save the upgrade log in
to:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py",
line 20, in run
rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1468, in
doInstall
self.fstab.savePartitions ()
File "fstab.py", line 221, in savePartitions
sys.exit(0)
SystemExit: 0
Local variables in innermost frame:
self: fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8446fe0

sys: module 'sys' (built-in)

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6
failed

This error occurs in some systems where links to
changed since creation. These symbolic or changed links are invalid during the installation process,
so the installation program cannot write information and fails.
/tmp/
are symbolic to other locations or have been
/tmp/
. The error may look similar