Bug 180915 – Installer crashes after extracting contents of portage-tarball (downloaded from URL) with the following error in installer.log

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description mxedit10n 2007-06-05 01:15:09 UTC]

GLI: June 05 2007 00:39:43 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.5.4
GLI: June 05 2007 00:40:46 - Mounted mountpoint: /
GLI: June 05 2007 00:40:46 - Created mountpoint /boot
GLI: June 05 2007 00:40:46 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot
GLI: June 05 2007 00:43:42 - Fetching and unpacking tarball: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-20070603.tar.bz2
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:09 - http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-20070603.tar.bz2 was fetched and unpacked.
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - Chroot environment ready.
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of the normal install errors. The error was: '[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/spawn.sh''
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
    func()
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 583, in install_portage_tree
    exitstatus = GLIUtility.spawn("emerge sync", chroot=self._chroot_dir, display_on_tty8=True, logfile=self._compile_logfile, append_log=True)
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 302, in spawn
    wrapper = open(chroot+"/var/tmp/spawn.sh", "w")
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/spawn.sh'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from 2007 LiveDVD
2. After X Server has loaded, execute "installer" from terminal.
3. Configure "installer" to pull portage-snapshot from:

   http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-20070603.tar.bz2

4. Once "installer" nearly-completes extracting contents from tarball, it crashes.

Actual Results:  
GLI: June 05 2007 00:39:43 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.5.4
GLI: June 05 2007 00:40:46 - Mounted mountpoint: /
GLI: June 05 2007 00:40:46 - Created mountpoint /boot
GLI: June 05 2007 00:40:46 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot
GLI: June 05 2007 00:43:42 - Fetching and unpacking tarball: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-20070603.tar.bz2
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:09 - http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-20070603.tar.bz2 was fetched and unpacked.
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - Chroot environment ready.
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of the normal install errors. The error was: '[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/spawn.sh''
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
    func()
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 583, in install_portage_tree
    exitstatus = GLIUtility.spawn("emerge sync", chroot=self._chroot_dir, display_on_tty8=True, logfile=self._compile_logfile, append_log=True)
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 302, in spawn
    wrapper = open(chroot+"/var/tmp/spawn.sh", "w")
GLI: June 05 2007 00:53:15 - IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/spawn.sh'

Expected Results:  
I expected the 2007 LiveDVD's "installer" to install Gent00.

CPU:       AMD Duron(tm) 900MHz Processor (Socket A)
Memory:    512MB SDRAM
Chipset:   VIA Apollo
Video:     ATi Radeon 9000 AGP

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2007-06-05 02:58:15 UTC]

You chose a portage snapshot tarball for the stage tarball.