From c54e4b1688ce51c4ee9b24e26090e7c0f0919030 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:03:32 -0400
Subject: vtActivate doesn't work on some ppc64 machines, so don't traceback
 (#516206).

---
 exception.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'exception.py')

diff --git a/exception.py b/exception.py
index 15aa6c7ed..0df4eab7a 100644
--- a/exception.py
+++ b/exception.py
@@ -52,7 +52,13 @@ class AnacondaExceptionHandler(ExceptionHandler):
             pass
 
     def runDebug(self, (ty, value, tb)):
-        isys.vtActivate(1)
+        # vtActivate does not work on certain ppc64 machines, so just skip
+        # that and continue with the rest of the debugger setup.
+        try:
+            isys.vtActivate(1)
+        except SystemError:
+            pass
+
         self.intf.__del__ ()
 
         pidfl = "/tmp/vncshell.pid"
-- 
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