Bug 50215

Summary:	Installer crashed when upgrading a RH6.2 box
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Majid Tajamolian <mjdtjm>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Majid Tajamolian 2001-07-28 13:48:25 UTC

Description of Problem:
I upgrade a RH6.2 box to RH7.1
During upgrade process via text interface, the installer crashes when is going to upgrade/install "tcsh-6.10-5" package with a error message "install exited abnormally -- received signal 11"

How Reproducible:
Often, but not always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from RH7.1 CDROM
2. enter "text" in the boot command prompt
3. select "upgrade" from the installation menu
4. continue the general process to upgrade, and ... CRASH!

Actual Results:
The installer crashes with the "install exited abnormally -- received signal 11" message.

Expected Results:
Installation should finished normally!

Additional Information:
The computer is an AMD-Athlon 650 MHz with 512KB ext. cache
256MB RAM
Motherboard GIGA 7IXE with AMI BIOS ver 02/29/2000

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-07-28 16:00:44 UTC

Can you look on VC4 and see if there are any error messages?  The problem is,
though, depending on exactly where the upgrade crashed, your machine may be in
an unstable state, which may make reproducing the problem difficult.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-08-10 15:07:35 UTC

Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information.