Bug 54339
| Summary: | Will not install unless in expert and then does not fully install. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Bristol <dbristol> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-01-16 20:08:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
David Bristol
2001-10-04 15:42:40 UTC
What kind of machine is it? Is it in the meridian building? No, it is a home built machine. Tyan (model #?) motherboard with an AMD k6-3 750 MHz processor, 256 Mb of SDRAM on a 133 MHz bus, Riva 128 Mb video card (PCI), two NICS: linksys lne100-TX and Netgear fa310-TX. SoundBlaster Live soundcard, USB (on the motherboard), two ATA 100 Western Digital Hard Drives and a 48X acer CDROM. If you need more specific info, let me know. I do not yet have internet at the house so I'll have to write it down and bring it in with me tomorrow. Thanks for the follow up. This is very strange behavior. It sounds like you have pretty common hardware. It would help to have more of the debug message when the crash happens. Unfortunately, when the system locks up, there is no way to get to the debug message. The system is locked completely. There is no chance to get to the other screens (f1-f5.) I have tried another reinstall, and when I do not test the X configuration, the install completes fine. With the regular install, the error message was something like: gtk+ critical ... " ! = null " I was unable to get it printed out, and, quite frankly, I'd rather not reinstall if possible. If the message is critical, I will reinsand write it all down. I am sure that the end of the error was " ! = null " I don't know...it sounds like something is going wrong with the X server. On some cards, it seems like starting two X servers causes problems. You're already running one, which is the graphical installer, and then testing the X configuration causes another one to start. Does the behavior in bug #28373 sound like the problem you are seeing? That bug does not sound similar to the problems I was experiencing. Unfortunately, everything else about the install process ran fine in expert mode. In standard mode, it never made it to the package selection scree, and the error message had no line number (or any other identifier for that matter), but did give the error: `widget != NULL'. Hmm...I don't really know where to go from here. Is there any way you could bring the machine in so we could have a look at it? Also, does 7.2 display the same behavior? This is 7.2 install. 7.0 and 7.1 installed with no problem. Again, I'm just submitting the bug so that we can refine the install process. It's probably just my video card (STB Velocity 128 4Mb.) If you want to close it as "not a bug" so that you can move on to more important stuff, that's fine. I can bring it in, but since it is my home system I would have to be there when it is tested. Oh, it was filed against 7.1. Changing versions. I think it would just take a minute for you and me to try an install and duplicate the behavior, but if it's too much trouble to bring it in then I understand. Just out of curiosity, did you click the "Hide Help" button on the first screen of the installer? I tried hiding and not hiding the help bar thinking that would make a difference, but it didn't. I can bring it in next week, on like thursday or friday (nov. 2/3.) Let me know what would work for you. Thursday sounds fine. Have you had the chance to bring your machine in? No. I apologize. I was sick the week we were supposed to coordinate and have since been reassigned to several new projects. Please let me know what day (from Wednesday on) would work to meet before noon. Could you bring the machine by os-devel sometime and we'll have a look. Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information. |