Bug 13146

Summary: GUI Install bombs out for unknown reason
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Nitin Dahyabhai <nitind>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Nitin Dahyabhai 2000-06-28 03:40:11 UTC
Using the official CD mailed to me, the installer dies with:

(VT1:)
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error:        No symbols named "nodeadkeys" in the include file "us"
>               Exiting
>               Abandoning symbols file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Error loading keyboard description
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":1.0".
sending termination signals...


...with these options chosen:
Screan 1:	English

Screen 2:	Generic 104-key PC 		[Logitech Cordless iTouch]
		US English
		Disable dead keys

Screen 3:	Microsoft Intellimouse (PS/2)	[Logitech Cordless Wheel]

Screen 5:	Server System
		BOOM.


It continues when I use the exact same options but choose Custom.

Comment 1 Nitin Dahyabhai 2000-06-28 04:38:34 UTC
Disk was originally partitioned this way when it was crashing:
	hda1: Boot Manager
	hda2: HPFS
	hda3: VFAT
	hda4: extended
	hda5: HPFS

(3 and 5 may have been switched as there was a second bootable 
copy of NT4 installed for recovery of the first)

No longer dies after disk has been repartitioned through custom system mode
and also not after I rebooted to restart installer

new layout:
	hda1: Linux native
	hda2: Linux swap
	hda3: Linux native
	hda4: extended
	hda5: Linux native
	hda6: Linux native


Comment 2 Nitin Dahyabhai 2000-06-28 04:40:10 UTC
The "HPFS" partitions were really NTFS4. HDA1 had the OS/2 Boot Manager.

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-07-05 17:09:18 UTC
Known problem which was fixed for beta3.