Bug 30862
Summary: | Custom Install crashed after monitor selection before video card selection | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | John DeHority <john.dehority> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | ||
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: | 2001-03-14 16:26:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
John DeHority
2001-03-06 20:59:22 UTC
Is this a cd that you burned yourself? If so, I think something went wrong during either the download or the burning of the cd. The program is crashing because it's trying to look up your video card in the cards database, and it can't find the database. This should never happen, because the cards database is always distributed with Red Hat Linux. You might try using text mode and then skip configuring the video card, however, if the cd is bad, I would encourage you to download again and burn a new cd. Can you run md5sum on the iso image and see if it matches the md5sum of the iso images on the ftp site? That will let you know if there were errors in the download. Hello..... The failure is consistently on a file open. I now suspect that the failure is due to the aging CD-ROM drive on this system. With increaseing frequency it takes a couple tries for it to seek to and open a file. I expect the retries are causing a timeout in the open file routine of the install scripts. I've had simular failures with 3 different sets of CDs: a genuine RedHat 7 CD, a set we burned from a network download, and a set that came with a "Learn RedHat Linux in a Weekend" book. I'm almost certain the problem is with the hardware. A longer timeout in the open might might work around it, but I'll find a local fix--either replacing the CD-ROM drive or using a network install. Thanks Yeah, that sounds right to me. When the installer can't find files, usually it's a bad cd, a bad download, or bad hardware. There's no other reason for a file that is a part of the installer not to be found. |