On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> We just had to install a couple of SL 6.1 machines (due to collaboration
> dependency on this version) and strangely found that the installation
> would bomb every time with an anaconda error when trying to parse
> /tmp/.treeinfo. The file contains the following contents:
>
> ...
>
> it was suggested there that someone post this to the SL lists but I
> don't see any sign that happened. Their workaround of a dummy hosts
> entry for ftp.scientificlinux.org does let the install succeed, but I
> imagine that either putting the file back into place, or disabling the
> "helpful" response from the server in favor of a plain 404 response,
> should help?
>
> Although I'm curious why anaconda is attempting to download a file from
> ftp.scientificlinux.org when all the declared sources are local - some
> oversight in the installer build?
>
> The same problem afflicts SL 6.0, btw.

This problem was brought to the list when 6.1 was released (more or
less) and, IIRC, Connie tracked down the problem to a change in
Anaconda's behavior.