Bug 7579
| Summary: | Installation hangs | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Peter <psl> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-02-09 15:01:24 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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Once the install hangs (I am assuming that you are in the GUI installer), hit CTRL-ALT-F1 and look for what appears to be an error message. You should see something about a python exception and traceback. Please send that message to me and I will be glad to sort out the problem. If you do not see a message of this type after hitting the key combo above, just hit ALT-F2 and see if you see something there. Message from claire.lemonon
Installing 6.1 on a sparc fresh disk, with nothing selected in package list
(but the minimum base). Installation, in text mode, hangs at first package,
saying "119 packages to install, 3 installed - 0 Mb -, 116 packages remaining"
with no python traceback at all
(you get python traceback if starting with remainings of a previous broken
install)
With Ctrl-Alt-F4, we see that :
- /mnt/sysimage/usr/doc contains ldconfig-1-9.5
- /mnt/sysimage/tmp/install.log contains :
Installing setup.
Installing filesystem.
Installing basesystem.
Installing ldconfig.- and, the possible reason for hanging,
/mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm contains
a 0 byte conflictsindex.rpm and others xxx.rpm at 16384 bytes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Unfortunately, nothing was saved of this broken install, so no traces !
The install was made from a CD handmade from a mirror Cartman distribution
then with ftp from the host holding this complete distribution
Workaround (for those who try to compare Linux with Windows) :
I first installed the base from a nice Hedwig 6.0, then upgraded with
my pretty good CD, successfully !
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The installation hangs after installing all the packages. For what it's worth, I'm in the Pacific Northwest so I'm in the time zone that the Installer associates with Los Angeles. This inability to install has been reported before (bugs 5494, 5524, 5570) but it's still broken and no work-around is given, making Linux less useful than Windows (which can at least be installed) -- it's embarassing!