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Description
This test case is intended to introduce a failure, and validate Anaconda is able to properly handle the failure and report the issue to bugzilla while running in Text mode. A valid bugzilla username and password are required for this test, please refer to BugsAndFeatureRequests.
Setup
Download and prepare any non-Live Fedora installation medium.
How to test
- Boot the installer by any available means but add
inst.text
to the boot options - If you know how to make Anaconda crash, you can do so. Otherwise use Anaconda's fake exception handling trigger - switch to a different terminal and run the following command:
kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/anaconda.pid`
Switch back to the installer, an error prompt should be displayed after a few seconds (you might need to hit refresh in a text mode). - Check that a file with all the crash details has been created in
/tmp/anaconda-tb-*
. - Report the exception to Bugzilla using the error prompt.
- If you used the fake exception handling trigger, go to Bugzilla and close the newly reported bug as NOTABUG.
Expected Results
- The installer presents a failure prompt and allows you to report it to Bugzilla.
- Exception traceback is displayed.
- Crash details are saved into
/tmp/anaconda-tb-*
. - After reporting to Bugzilla, depending on the traceback you are either informed that a new bug was created, or that an existing bug was found that matches this failure. Either way, a bug number is provided.
- Details of the failure are attached to the bug report.