Bug 64523
| Summary: | installer hangs or crashes on anaconda | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <jbecker> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:48:49 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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Please boot the installer with the commandline 'linux mediacheck' to verify your CDs. Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to add. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: On a 486 with no LBA support (except for Maxtor's MaxBlast firmware) Linux 7.2 will not install. Tried various configurations and various partition sizes and locations. Twice it hung on dev-3 package installation, other times with anaconda crash and details, others with badly laid out shutdown screen with blue background. Note that this same machine had a Redhat Linux 6.2 install which was lost during installation formatting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert floppy and CD 2.Reboot 3.Run Install Actual Results: see description Expected Results: Installed OS with bootable harddrive Additional info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 620, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 408, in run dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 143, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 489, in doInstall l.sort(sortPackages) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 294, in sortPackages elif (string.lower(first[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME]) TypeError: read-only character buffer, None Local variables in innermost frame: one: 0 two: 0 second: XFree86-xdm first: XFree86-75dpi-fonts