Re: unable to run tests requiring "updates=http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/updates/traceback.img" option

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> > Kamil Paral <kparal <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > > Several tests in the install test matrix require the above
> > > > option,
> > > > but when
> > > > anaconda attempts to start after downloading the file, I get
> > > > the
> > > > text-based
> > > > traceback (not the expected GUI error) at
> > > > 
> > > > http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/traceback.xwd.gz
> > > 
> > > Did you already reported the bug against anaconda?
> > 
> > No, the error "ImportError: cannot import name expandLangs" made me
> > suspect that
> > the problem is with the traceback.img file itself (I could be wrong
> > though).
> 
> You seem to be right. I explored the files in traceback.img and they
> contain this line.
> 
> So there are two solutions:
> 
> 1. Ask James Laska (or someone else) to fix this problem.
> 
> 2. Ask Anaconda team to provide us with their "official" and
> supported solution.
> 
> After inspecting updates.img, there is a lot of code copied from
> (some old version of) anaconda. That doesn't seem to me as a good
> solution, because we might get completely unrelated problems in the
> process. I imagine anaconda guys could provide us with a much better
> solution. For example they could add "traceback" kernel option that
> causes anaconda crash on startup. This is just a few lines of code,
> it would be maintained, and doesn't involve any updates.img
> downloading etc. What do you think? I'll discuss with anaconda team
> if noone has better ideas.

I consulted this idea with Vratislav Podzimek from Anaconda team. He agreed this could be implemented, especially because we're not alone asking for it. He'll try to get this feature into anaconda very soon so that we can test it.

Kamil
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