Bug 1468896

Summary: anaconda "hangs" at "Preparing transaction from installation source"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 27CC: anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jkonecny, jonathan, mkolman, ssydoren, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vponcova
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Last Closed: 2018-11-30 17:36:42 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-07-09 15:35:29 UTC
Description of problem:
I was installing rawhide in VM today (virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name rawhide-uefi --boot uefi --disk size=20 --memory 1024 --cdrom Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20170708.n.0.iso), and it stops as in $subject. It's not frozen — anaconda reacts to user input, I can go the the "create user" pane, and I can switch to the text terminal. It just doesn't seem to be doing anything in particular.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20170708.n.0.iso

How reproducible:
don't know yet

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-07-09 15:36:19 UTC
Created attachment 1295619 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 2 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-07-09 15:36:52 UTC
Created attachment 1295620 [details]
program.log

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-07-09 15:37:29 UTC
Created attachment 1295621 [details]
storage.log

Comment 4 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-07-09 15:38:01 UTC
Created attachment 1295622 [details]
/tmp/syslog

Comment 5 Jiri Konecny 2017-07-10 10:02:52 UTC
Hi Zbigniew,

Please verify if it is reproducible for you. We are having similar issue in our tests, which are using virt-install heavily.
For us it is not reproducible; it happens approximately 1 from 5 installations.

Thank you for reporting this.

Comment 6 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-07-10 13:06:42 UTC
I tried a second time (this time with --memory 1024) and it worked without issue. I'll try to find time to make a few more tries later.

Comment 7 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-07-11 01:41:20 UTC
> I tried a second time (this time with --memory 1024)
That was supposed to be 2048.

I tried a few more times with --memory 1024 and it seems to work OK every time.

Comment 8 Jiri Konecny 2017-07-11 05:52:52 UTC
IMHO, it looks like you have encountered the same issue as we have. It happens even more when there is heavy parallel usage of virt-install.

Comment 9 Jan Kurik 2017-08-15 06:27:04 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle.
Changing version to '27'.

Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 18:39:47 UTC
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Comment 11 Ben Cotton 2018-11-30 17:36:42 UTC
Fedora 27 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2018-11-30. Fedora 27 is
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Comment 12 Sviatoslav Sydorenko 2019-09-24 16:08:23 UTC
FTR I'm also hitting this during the installation of Fedora 30.