Bug 128688

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Description of problem:
When I try to install FC2 on two of our PCs then the rpm database
seems to becomes corrupted somewhere while the package installation.
In the file /root/install.log I found many messages of the form:

error: db4 error(-30978) from dbcursor->c_put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
error, run database recovery
error: error(-30978) storing record /usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/
into Dirnames

These messages are repeated with different paths many times, starting
somewhere in the middle of the file /root/install.log and lasting
until the last rpm package is installed. There are still messages
between the error messages that a rpm package with name xxx will be
installed, but starting with the error messages these packages are not
installed afterwards.

In my case the error messages start after the message
GConf2-2.6.0-4.i386 wird installiert.
(german - the named package is being installed)
This is reproducable when using the same (kickstart) configuration.
But I suspect that it has nothing to do with the package itself,
but that it seems that is a general problem with some driver or
something like that.

This error appears only on two of our hosts, which have the same
hardware configuration. They have a motherboard ASUS P4B with bios
version 1012, cpu Pentium 4 with 1,6 GHz, 512 mb ram, scsi hard disk .
On both computers the results are the same. I exchanged the hard disk
and the memory module, with and without ECC, but the results are the
same. memtest86+ reported no error on both computers.

I installed FC2 on about 18 other computers with many different
motherboards and different intel cpus, using the same source (booting
from cd, kickstart installation over the dhcp, FC2 sources over nfs).
While installing the same set of rpm packages, none of them had these
problems. Only these two computers with equal hardware.

First I thought this would be a hardware error, after some days and
some tests with different hardware components and the same results on
both equal hosts and very reproducable results I tend to say that it
may be a software problem.

Does someone have an idea what the reason could be and what to do to
install FC2 successful on that hardware?

Many thanks in advance!


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use the kickstart file and install FC2 on a PC with ASUS P4B
motherboard and Intel Pentium 4 1,6 GHz.


Actual Results:  After FC2 installation has finished and rebooted the
graphical X11 login will not appear. There appear messages from init
that 'x' entry is respawning to often and will be suspended for 5 minutes.
In /root/install.log there will be the messages noted above.
Some rpm packages seems not being installed.

Expected Results:  FC2 installation should be successful like on our
other computers.

Additional info: