Bug 100399
| Summary: | installer for 8.0 fails immediately after starting X server | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | alm <al.mullikin> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-11 20:05:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Have you verified your media following the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html The media were tested during several of the installation attempts. All the disks passed. I had used these disks a few weeks ago to install 8.0 on my laptop. I also used the 8.0-cdread.img patch on one of the attempts with no apparent difference in the results. Have you tried on this specific machine, though? There are some errors in the log that look a lot like problems actually reading off of the CD (and different CD-ROM drives tend to have different tolerances for questionable CDs, especially CD-Rs) I have two machines on which I want to install 8.0. The first is a laptop. The installation proceeded without a hitch. The second is a desktop. I have tried to install six or eight times with variations in each try. Using two different CD drives (on the desktop), I tested all the media and they passed. I used the 8.0-cdread.img patch with each drive for the installations. In all instances, the result was the same - the log in my original message was reproduced. How much RAM is in the desktop machine? 500MB, but I think that the problem has been identified. I had an old IDE disk in the machine with a previous version of RedHat. Much of that installation had been deleted since I was only using it to store data. I disconnected it from the computer and tried to install RedHat 9.0. It worked like a charm. If the disk is reattached, GRUB hangs up, so I am inclined to believe that the disk was the problem. I have not tried 8.0, but my guess is that it would work in the same way. I believe there is an option with GRUB that is a kind of search option. If the first disk in its list (probably the IDE disks first, then SCSI) doesn't work, it will try the next. I haven't tried that yet, but it is next. I would like to again use the disk for storage. In any event, the computer now has a working version of RedHat. Thanks for the help. Good to hear you found the problem. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: As soon as all requested packages have been copied to the hard disk, the installer starts the X server. The following output is printed to the console: Waiting for X server to start... log located in /tmp/X.log 1...2...3...4...5...6.... X server started successfully <the following is repeated seven times> (anaconda:94) Gnome Canvas-CRITICAL**: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion 'path !=NULL' failed install exited abnormally sending termination signals ... done ... You may safely reboot your system <end of console output> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot to first CD for Version 8.0 2.Follow instructions 3. Actual Results: The installation seemed to go normally until all requested packages were copied to disk. The installation then failed with the message indicated in the summary expansion Expected Results: A working version of Version 8.0 Additional info: I previously had version 7.3 installed on this hardware. Linux is on a scsi disk and Windows 2000 is on an IDE disk with a dual boot using GRUB. GRUB no longer works so I cannot boot to either Windows or Linux. The Linux disk was reformatted (both automatic and manual) with error checking enabled on each install attempt. I have switched CD drives and switched video cards without causing a change in the result. I cannot get to the logs since a working operating system is not left on the drive. I have tried to install custom and workstation versions with and without requesting additional packages (even tried to install everything). All attempts lead to the same results.