Bug 133093

Summary: Installation stalls on laptop
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stig Nielsen <stig>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3CC: marius.andreiana, nobody+pnasrat, stig
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Stig Nielsen 2004-09-21 17:32:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
First try:
Format hda5,hda6 & hda7. Installation stalls while formatting 
/dev/hda5. X seems to be running ok, no problem entering terminal 
window (Ctrl-Alt-F1)

Second try:
Didn't format any drives - Install stalls after selecting packages

Third try:
choose default selections exept for disk partitioning - Same as 
second try

Please let me know if I can retry and gather some information for you 
- Never had any problems during install so I don't know where to 
look. Works ok with Mandrake 10.0 both before and after

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Additional info:
Fujitsu P7010 laptop (finger print and modem disabled in BIOS)
/dev/hda5 = /usr
/dev/hda6 = swap
/dev/hda7 = /
/dev/hda8 = /home   (reiserFS not format)
Comment 1 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-21 17:36:05 UTC 
Installed from DVD (md5sum checked - OK)
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-09-21 18:07:43 UTC 
If you switch to tty2 at that point, can you run commands?  If so, can
you cat /proc/meminfo?
Comment 3 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-22 04:17:48 UTC 
Yes everything seems to work at that runlevel.

MemTotal:      1026624 kB
MemFree:        806588 kB
Buffers:         28332 kB
Cached:          98280 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          92200 kB
Inactive:       104368 kB
HighTotal:      121792 kB
HighFree:          252 kB
LowTotal:       904832 kB
LowFree:        806336 kB
SwapTotal:     1044184 kB
SwapFree:      1044184 kB
Dirty:              84 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          83788 kB
Slab:            10140 kB
Committed_AS:    88192 kB
PageTables:        424 kB
VmallocTotal:   106488 kB
VmallocUsed:      5436 kB
VmallocChunk:   100664 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

Let me know if you need more....
Comment 4 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-23 19:41:39 UTC 
Created attachment 104214 [details]
Output of dmesg
Comment 5 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-23 19:43:00 UTC 
Created attachment 104215 [details]
/tmp/anaconda.log
Comment 6 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-23 19:44:19 UTC 
Created attachment 104216 [details]
/tmp/syslog
Comment 7 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-23 19:45:30 UTC 
Created attachment 104217 [details]
/tmp/X.log
Comment 8 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-23 19:48:01 UTC 
Some logs posted 
output from dmesg, /tmp/anaconda.log, /tmp/syslog/, /tmp/X.log
Comment 9 Jeremy Katz 2004-09-23 23:21:13 UTC 
What did you select for your selinux setting?  If you boot with
'selinux=0', does it help?
Comment 10 Stig Nielsen 2004-09-24 00:35:59 UTC 
Thanks, That seems to do the trick. I stopped it before the install 
image was fully transferred to the harddisk, let me know if you want 
me to do more tests for the sake of a solution.