Bug 183206
| Summary: | Installer exits abnormally 5 secs after running anaconda, text & graphics mode | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | peter gal <peterg> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-28 01:03:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I take it you have no internal DVD drive so you can test with the USB DVD drive disconnected? I attached a DVD-ROM to the mboard's internal IDE port via an extremely electrically dangerous setup and installed FC5-test3 from that drive successfully. That narrows it down a lot, well done. However we'd really appreciate a way to install from an externally attached USB-DVD-ROM drive ? Ie: Unfortunately for us the 12 boxes of this type which we own don't have room for any internally mounted DVD-ROM drives, even slimline, because they're ultra compact "no legacy" boxes. (All internal drives SATA. USB mouse/keyboard) I tried reconnecting the external DVD-ROM to the mboard via firewire instead of USB, but BIOS didn't discover it. Okay, that narrows it down to the USB drive. The changes I made in CVS today should hopefully fix this. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Mboard is Intel D925XBC CPU is Intel 3.66 GHz Graphics is ATI Radeon X300SE PCI-X Harddisk x 1 is SATA-1 Installer DVD (USB2 enclosure) attached to USB port on mboard (Local NFS server also used) Install setup/options: Installer DVD (USB2 enclosure) attached to USB port on mboard Boot from DVD <enter> (graphical mode), Keyb=US Lang=US Source=DVD Perform CRC check = yes, (passes each time) Symptoms: 1) After booting from FC5-test3 installer DVD inserted into external DVD-ROM drive, and after providing above options, TTY1 displays "Running anaconda.....", then after 5 seconds displays "Install exiting abnormally" and shuts down. 2) If I intercept "Running anaconda..." with Ctrl-s and switch to TTY3, I see the following: ...blah... ...blah... ...blah... 21:26:46 INFO : USB mouse found, loading mousedev module 21:26:46 INFO : modules to insert mousedev 21:26:46 INFO : load module set done 21:26:46 ERROR : failed to loading mousedev module 21:26:46 INFO : Running anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda <that's it> 3) If I then switch to TTY4 I see the following: ...blah... ...blah... ...blah... <6>SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enable <6>SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem <6>device-mapper: 4-5-0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel <that's it> 4) If I switch to TTY2 and type "ddcprobe" I get a successful graphics card and monitor detection, ie: Videocard autoprobe results Description: ATI Technologies Inc. V300 Memory (MB): 16 Monitor autoprobe results ID: BNQ7652 Name: BenQ FP547 Horizontal Sync (kHZ): 31-63 Vertical Sync (HZ): 56-75 Width (mm): 300 Height (mm): 230 5) If I retry with "linux nokill", I don't get any more messages. 6) If I retry with "linux text", I don't get any more messages. 7) If I retry and install over-the-wire from my NFS server, and specify an IP address and NFS server, the installer mounts the NFS folder, but then fails at the same place, and I don't get any more messages. 8) Here's an interesting difference I observe between the FC5-test2 (which works) and FC5-test3 install sequences: a) FC5-test2 autoloads the disk drivers in the following sequence: i) usb-storage driver ii) ohci1394 driver iii) ahci driver b) FC5-test3 autoloads the disk drivers in the following sequence: i) usb-storage driver ii) ohci1394 driver iii) ata_piix driver iv) usb-storage driver <--- Hmmmm loads a second time! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert DVD in external DVD-ROM drive case connect to mboard USB2 port via USB2 cable. 2. Boot from DVD 3. Hit <enter> to boot graphical (no difference if "linux text") 4. Provide following answers when requested: Keyb=US Lang=US Source=CD (DVD) Perform CRC check = yes, (passes each time) 5. Observe anaconda error and auto shutdown. Actual Results: After specifying "test CD or "skip CD", get message: "Running anaconda....", and 5 seconds later "install exited abnormally:. Expected Results: Instead of "install exited abnormally", anaconda should display messages relating to probing graphics, monitor, mouse, then start X server. Additional info: