Bug 193293

Summary:	Fedora for IA64 (devel tree) Fails to Install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	grgustaf, kaccardi, prarit
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Hardware:	ia64
OS:	Linux
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Description Anil S Keshavamurthy 2006-05-26 21:51:43 UTC

Description of problem:
Unable to install rawhide (devel) Fedora on IA64. 

The rawhide tried was rawhide-20060514-ia64 and also the lastes Rawhide as of 
May 24th also did not work.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rawhide-20060514-ia64

How reproducible:
Boot the system from boot.iso image burnt on CD and select FTP and provide the 
path where the devel tree for iso exist.

Here is all the options that I tried for installation of Fedora on IA64
and all the below options fails.

1) Tried X -   X does not work, say waiting and switches to text mode
2) Text mode - Anaconda crashes right after package selection and before 
package dependency is completed.
3) VNC mode -  Reports that libX11.so.6 can not shared lib. File not found 
error. And Vncviewer fails to connect.

However FC5 bits available from 
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fedora/download/FC5/ works (able to install)via VNC 
mode on IA64 tiger4 box.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install from boot.iso and select FTP and provide devel tree path.
2. Select either text or vnc and continue to install the OS
3.
  
Actual results:
Fails to Install.

Expected results:
Should be able to Install the FC for IA64.


Additional info: Tried on IA64 Tiger4 box (Fails on both Madison and Montecito 
processors)

Comment 1 Prarit Bhargava 2006-05-30 13:59:46 UTC

>1) Tried X -   X does not work, say waiting and switches to text mode

Hmmm ... is this because it isn't detecting a video card?  Or a monitor?

>2) Text mode - Anaconda crashes right after package selection and before 
>package dependency is completed.

Could you cut-and-paste the crash?

Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2006-05-30 14:13:00 UTC

>2) Text mode - Anaconda crashes right after package selection and before 
package dependency is completed.

Just tried this and cannot reproduce this issue.  I'll connect with grgustaf to
see if he has a system that I can use to attempt to reproduce this issue.

Geoff -- do you have a tiger4 system that I could borrow?

P.

Comment 3 Prarit Bhargava 2006-05-30 14:19:05 UTC

>3) VNC mode -  Reports that libX11.so.6 can not shared lib. File not found 
error. And Vncviewer fails to connect.

I seem to get a bit further along with vnc than Anil did -- however it does
fail with the following error:


WARNING!!! VNC server running with NO PASSWORD!
You can use the vncpassword=<password> boot option
if you would like to secure the server.


The VNC server is now running.
Please connect to altix2.lab.boston.redhat.com:1 to begin the install...

Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'mini-wm' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest'.
  (Details: serial 72 error_code 1 request_code 146 minor_code 2)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
aborting..


I'll enter in a gdk bug for now and see if it's a known issue or not ...

P.