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Bug 158454

Summary: installation failed - set_root_password: failure
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Rafal_Witowski <infowit>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Rafal_Witowski 2006-12-18 05:40:56 UTC
Installation failed 4 times.
Last failed by setting  the root password.
I have sent the Screen of the bad installation in english by the email programm from LInux LIve Gentoo.
> I have a little partition unalloceted of 8 MB which the installator takes.
> I have partitions /sda1 with With Windows XP.
> sda2 the extended partitions.
> sda5 for WIndows,
> sda6 ext3 for LInux mount point /.
> sda3 swap2 for Linux,
> sda4 ext3 for Linux mount point /boot.
The last messages of teh installation :
root_password- failure to set  root password,
Traceback (most recent call last)
File 
Comment 1 Rafal_Witowski 2006-12-18 05:40:56 UTC
Installation failed 4 times.
Last failed by setting  the root password.
I have sent the Screen of the bad installation in english by the email programm from LInux LIve Gentoo.
> I have a little partition unalloceted of 8 MB which the installator takes.
> I have partitions /sda1 with With Windows XP.
> sda2 the extended partitions.
> sda5 for WIndows,
> sda6 ext3 for LInux mount point /.
> sda3 swap2 for Linux,
> sda4 ext3 for Linux mount point /boot.
The last messages of teh installation :
root_password- failure to set  root password,
Traceback (most recent call last)
File /opt/installer/GLIClientController.py line 197 in run,
Self._install_steps[self._install][function]()
File /opt/installer/GCLIArchitectureTeplate.py, line  1216 in set_root_pasword
Raise GLIException(SetRootPAsswordError,fatal,Failure to set root password!)
-	GLIException: SetRootPasswordError: FATAL: set_root_password: failure to set  root password!
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-18 06:03:55 UTC
Please, don't restrict bugs about any reason, just leave the checkboxes alone.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146206 ***