Bug 7600
| Summary: | installation of 6.1 quits afer "running installer" & "running /sbin/loader" | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | John F. Kohler <jkohler2> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-02-09 15:05:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I am assuming that you are performing a cdrom installation. Where did the install media come from? Is this a cdrom that was burned or one that was shipping in the boxed set? It appears that files are either missing or the permissions on the libraries are incorrect. ------- Email Received From jkohler2 12/06/99 14:17 ------- The CD-ROM was from a Red Hat istallation package I purchased by mail order. Careless handling of the disk left finger marks on the readable surface, that prevented continuing installation to a successful end. Cure for the problem was soap and water and a dry lint free cloth After cleaning, the installation was flawless. Sorry for the bug report. There was no bug. John Kohler |
Here are, in column format, are the screen messages leading up to the Signal 11: Uniform CDROM driver Revision :2.56 Floppy drive(s) : fd0 is 1.44M FDC0 is a post 1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs: 86.487.MB/sec 32regs: 63.627 MB/sec using fastest function: 8regs (86.487 MB/sec) scsi: 0 hosts. scsi: detected total md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Greetings. Red hat install init version 6.0 starting mounting /proc filesystems... done mounting /dev/pts (unix89 pty) filesystem....done checking for NFS root filesystem....no trying to remount root filesystem read write....done checking for writeable /tmp..... yes running install.... running /sbin/loader {at this point, my system went into a steady state with the cdrom light on steady and the harddisk light on steady. More text follows.... Traceback (Inermost last): File /usr/bin/anaconda, line 121 , in ? from todo import ToDo File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-package/dtodo.py, line 11 in ? from mouse importe Mouse File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/mouse.py, line 3 in ? from snack import * File /usr/lib/python1.5/snack.py, line 7, in ? import _snack Import Error: libslang.so.1: cannot reead file data: Input/output error install exited abnormally sending termination signals .... done sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems.... /mnt/sourde /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system Very truly, John F. Kohler 217 Fairlawn Avenue Daly City, CA jkohler2 (650)756-7191 I have found this failure to be repeatable. I can still install Red Hat 5.2 and Red Hat 6.0 successfully. My system is a pentium -90 with 96 mbytes ram and 1.2 gig hard drive.