From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Installation failed several times either with kernel oopses or hard lockups of system (CPU= AMD Athlon Thunderbird, 1.0G). First install: selecting Personal Desktop went smoothly. Subesequent installs, selecting Workstation (select applications) or Workstation (default applications), result in system rebooting with failure of initscripts, *OR* installer complaining that "/dev/hda was not formatted (!!!), please reboot system" Sixth or seventh attempt to install: select "Install Everything". approximately 4/5ths of installation procedure is done (formatting, selection of components, installation of software), when installer complains that there is "not sufficient space on /dev/hda *or* your (install) media may be corrupted. NOTE: On at least three of these occasions, including my first install, I took the time to verify all three CD's before proceeding. Also there are no other OSes on the disk (20 Mb all devoted to Red Hat linux). I *did* opt for: "delete all partitions" or "delete all linux partitions". (I have only tried installing "Everything" *once*, but FWIW, I am entering the Reproducibility as "every time", as I suspect (have a gut feeling) that the problem *is* consistent. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): default version with Severn beta 1 (RH 9.0.93) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Severn Beta installer. 2. Select New Installation / Workstation 3. Option: "Install Everything" Actual Results: Installation fails after approximately 70% completion, claiming either lack of disk space or possible failure of media. Expected Results: Installation should proceed as there is ample room on disk (20 Gb), including space for necessary temp files. Additional info: Suspect this might be related to kernel oopses and AMD CPU's as per comment from Bill Nottingham in reply to subject titled: Masive kernel oopses with Taroon beta 1, posted by Tom Georgoulias in today's (28 Jul.) discussions.
No, it's *probably* not related to the taroon thing; there's no athlon-specific optimizations in the BOOT kernel, as far as I know. It does sound like a kernel issue, however.
"(20 Mb all devoted to Red Hat linux)." - I hope you meant Gb there 8-) When it claims its out of disk space, can you hit ctrl-alt-f2 and type df and check ? Likewise, do 'fdisk /dev/hda' and tell us what the output of 'p' looks like If these look sensible, this is an installer bug, not a kernel bug. (Or possibly bad hardware).
The HD *is* 20 Gb, so it's totally used for Severn. Should I try a "full" install again? I now have a lot of things configured, so it would take some time to backup "Likewise, do 'fdisk /dev/hda' and tell us what the output of 'p' looks like If these look sensible, this is an installer bug, not a kernel bug.and do another install. " I guess this should only be done during installation, or would that give any useful information *now* on the present "stable" system?
I have been able to confirm that the problem is *consistent*. I've recently done a pristine install (after several tries, I chose "Custom"). Installing all packages STILL fails, and here is the point where it sticks: "There is an error installing redhat-logos-1.1.14-1. This can indicate media failure, lack of disk space and / or hardware problems. This is a fatal error and ....". Since I dedicate the entire 20Gb disk to the install (including temps), this] would indicate a problem either with anaconda, or one of the install scripts,IMHO. My current install is not "all packages", but I now note that: in the KDE Control Center (Country / Region and language) a "question-mark" icon appears instead of the country flag (Canada). In the section, Appearance --> Icons --> Advanced, the default icons in for Desktop Filemananager (Default/Active/Disabled) are not the ones I recall seeing previously, but the "paper sheet with rocket" icon. I would surmise that this relates to the problem with installing the redhat-logos package? After recent updates from rawhide (to Sep. 03), these are the versions now on my system: redhat-logos-1.1.14-1 redhat-artwork-0.81-1 redhat-menus-0.39-2 kdegraphics-3.1.3-3 kdeartwork-3.1.3-2
Apparently fixed with Fedora Core Test3. I did *one* "Install everything" and it was done without any problems.
Ok, closing as working in rawhide.