Bug 25874

Summary:	Installer crash when looking for a bus mouse
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Dan <danlem>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Dan 2001-02-03 17:19:56 UTC

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I'm installing RHL 7.0 on a i386 PC with 8mb RAM and 1.2Gb IDE HD. There is a 1.44 and 1.2 floppies
and a 4x ATAPI cd-rom (from creative labs).

I install from a boot disk and multi-cd burned from images.

I tried to install in graphic, text and expert mode but the installer always crash at the same
point.

In the tty2, as soon as the message: looking for bus mouse" appear the installer failed.

Here is the message displayed in the tty1 screen:

Install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 15
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems...
  /mnt/runtime
  /mnt/source  unmount failded (16)
  /dev/pts
  /proc
you may safely reboot your system

I tried the update image  update-disk-20001009.img but I didn't solve the
problem.

BTW:  There is no USB port on the PC, the mouse is a serial one.

Thanks for help!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from the floppy
2. Select language and keyboard
3. Answer no to "do you have a driver disk"

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-06 18:53:12 UTC

This won't work (not enough RAM).

Why didn't we detect this Erik?

Comment 2 Erik Troan 2001-02-06 19:51:50 UTC

We were dying before the python got far enough along to complain -- I've added a
check for enough ram to the loader as well.