Bug 163588
Summary: | Installation hangs after selection of packages and checking dependencies | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Williams <web582> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4 | CC: | pfrields, wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2005-09-15 06:30:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
John Williams
2005-07-19 08:53:40 UTC
Were the leds on your keyboard blinking when it hung? I don't think so. I'm sure I would have noticed blinking, because I tried ctrl+alt+del several times before pressing 'Reset' on the computer. If ctrl-alt-del wasn't doing anything, then the kernel at least was hung. if you could repeat this, hit ctrl-alt-f2 just after selecting packages. If it's getting a kernel panic, we'll at least be able to see some of it this way. Hi, I don't think this will be much use to you. I went through the installation process as far as I could without actually starting the install. I tried both upgrading the present installation and making a new installation. After selecting packages or getting ready to start installation I pressed ctrl+alt+f2 but I just got a prompt: -/bin/sh-3.00# You may remember I was previously trying to install FC4 as a replacement for FC2 and after the boot loader got corrupted I installed FC3 to get my computer working again. So now I've gone through with the installation of FC4 as an Upgrade to FC3 and it worked OK. (The only error message was package ..termcap.. could not be installed because the files could not be read. But after I pressed enter when prompted on screen the installation proceeded without a hitch. Maybe my CD drive is not as good as it should be, because the media was checked.) I'm sorry I couldn't reproduce the original fault, but I'm happy I've got FC4 installed. All the best! John well, now that you're installed (and hopefully still working after installing the updates), I'm not sure what we can do here. The problem with termcap does sound like a hardware problem (be that with your CD drive or the media), as it hasn't been reported elsewhere to the best of my knowledge. Another thing you may want to try is running memtest86 overnight. Read failures can occur if data gets read into bad memory. thanks. |