Bug 46667
| Summary: | System does not start after install | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Scott Wedel <redhat_spam> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-07-25 22:03:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Scott Wedel
2001-06-29 19:13:19 UTC
Weird. Did anything strange happen during the install or did everything go normally? The installer completed as normal; no problems evidenced. Looks like it finishes happily, although the video card is incorrectly detected (which is a separate bug) and therefore Xconfigurator fails. Can you run 'ddcprobe' and attach the output? Also, can you attach you /etc/modules.conf file? I can't run ANYTHING. The system does not come up, AT ALL. Therefore, I never get shell access to run what you're looking for. Is this related to bug #46686 that you filed? It seems like you are having a couple of different problems at the same time. Have you tried just starting over and installing again? I would recommend using text mode and try skipping the video card test. I've done that. The system still doesn't come up, and spits out the same errors as before. I'm not sure it's ever getting to the point where X is started, to be honest, before it hangs. Well, it sounds like it's trying to start X, and then having a problem. What I meant to suggest to you was to do an install and select text login instead of graphical login. If you can get the system to at least come up to the text login prompt, we can then try running X manually. I saw a problem like this a few months ago, but I can't remember what the problem was. I know that the ATI Xpert 128 cards work, though. Well ... I've done that, too. I never get to a prompt of any type - it just hangs up at Configuring System Modules and then spits out all the error messages which I listed earlier in the bug, finally hanging up in the ID "1" etc. loop. Really? You selected text login and it's still doing this? Absolutely. No matter what login type I select, I never even get to a login prompt. The system hangs on boot, giving the error messages described earlier in this bug report. Wow. I'm stumped. I can't think of anything else to try. I'm stumped too, as well as a few knowledgable friends. Right now, I suspect the hard disk. After downloading the .ISO images for 6.2 I burned CDs, but 6.2 did the EXACT same thing as 7.1. We also replaced the video card, to a Matrox Mystique 4 MB card that I had lying around in a box in a closet. Handy :) I'm attempting to install (evil) Windows ME on the machine now, just to see if ANY installation will take. If not, the next step is to replace the hard disk. I'll keep you posted, if you like. I hate to close this bug, but it just seems to go in the category of the unexplainable, so I don't know what else to do. It does sound like a hardware problem to me since 6.2 didn't work either, and it had a completely different kernel than 7.1 If you see this problem appear on any other machines, please reopen this bug. Feel free to keep posting, though, about what you find with Windows. |