Installation guide

Note

When defining a partition's type as swap, you do not have to assign it a mount point. Disk

Dru id automatically assigns the mount point for you.

6.3.7. Are You Seeing Pyt hon Errors?

During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the installation program (also

known as an aco n d a) 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 the /tmp/directory. The

error may look similar 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 /tmp/ are symbolic to other locations or have been

changed since creation. These symbolic or changed links are invalid during the installation process,

so the installation program cannot write information and fails.

If you experience such an error, first try to download any available errata for an aco n d a. Errata can

be found at:

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/

The an aco n d a website may also be a useful reference and can be found online at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda

You can also search for bug reports related to this problem. To search Red Hat's bug tracking

system, go to:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Finally, if you are still facing problems related to this error, register your product and contact our

support team. To register your product, go to:

http://www.redhat.com/apps/activate/

6.4. Problems Aft er Inst allat ion

6.4 .1. T rouble Wit h t he Graphical GRUB Screen on an x86-based Syst em?

⁠Chapt er 6 . T roubleshoot ing Inst allat ion on an Int el® or AMD Syst em