The following has be reported by IBM LTC: Installation of RH AS 3.0 using Graphical installation (default) fails. Please fill in each of the sections below. I was trying to install in graphical mode RHAS 3.0 Beta 1 and it fails. It shows the following information in the screen after the failure: Running anaconda, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system installer - please wait... Probing for video card: Matrox Millennium G400 Probing for monitor type: Unknown monitor Probing for mouse type: Generic - Wheel Mouse (PS/2) Attempting to start native X server Waiting for X server to start...log located in /tmp/X.log 1...2...3..4..5... X server started successfully. The application 'mini-wm' lost its connection to the display :1.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... /tmp/sda3 unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /proc/bus/usb done /proc done /dev/pts done /tmp/ramfs done /mnt/source done you may safely reboot your system Hardware Environment: The machine I was using is an IBM machine 6887-32U with vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) cpu MHz : 664.568 cache size : 256 KB I was able to install 2 previous ALPHA releases of RH ES 3.0 in the same machine. Software Environment: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the machine with cd 1, choose graphical installation (Default) 2.put all requested info (IP address, packages, etc ....) 3.As soon as it starts installing the packages it fails and gives the error. Actual Results: Installation of Linux using graphical mode fails. Expected Results: Linux to be installed.
Any error messages on vt3/vt4?
correct all usage of "RH AS 3.0" to be "RHEL 3"
please also map 6887-32U to a model name so we may try to reproduce on local hardware
------ Additional Comments From salina.com 2003-07-08 11:11 ------- Looks like that may be PC 300 or PC 700 Intellistation ? I found this page http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=pcd1syj0-01bd9a0 Other 6887 are PC 750 if I search on http://w3.pc.ibm.com/support but I can't find 6887-32U Aldo, can you please update comments with the name of the PC model. Thanks.
------ Additional Comments From aduran.com 2003-07-08 11:34 ------- I am sorry I Guess I incorreclty typed the typ of the machine. It is IBM IntelliStation E Pro (Type 6867)
------ Additional Comments From salina.com 2003-07-08 12:12 ------- Glen / Greg Please tell RedHat detailed spec for machine found on this page http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_686732U
It appears this machine has 128MB of RAM. If you try installing by putting 'linux text' on the boot command line we can determine if the problem is due to the graphical installation running out of RAM.
------ Additional Comments From aduran.com 2003-13-08 17:46 ------- Yes, I was abel to install this version of RH Linux using text mode. aldo
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100453 ***
------ Additional Comments From jsbryant.com 2003-28-08 15:25 ------- I think I have hit this problem on iSeries as well. I saw the following results on a partition running our LVT test suite: Out of Memory: Killed process 12230 (startlvt). Out of Memory: Killed process 12228 (lvt.nfs.local). ./startlvt: line 714: 12228 Terminated $CMD >>$RUNOUTPUT_FILE Out of Memory: Killed process 12242 (lvt.nfs.local). Out of Memory: Killed process 12251 (startlvt). Out of Memory: Killed process 12244 (grep). An error occurred at: Mon Aug 25 15:51:17 CDT 2003 - Out of Memory: Killed process 12259 (startlvt). ./startlvt: line 549: [: -lt: unary operator expected ./startlvt: line 691: [: -ne: unary operator expected [ PASSED ] 28 seconds Out of Memory: Killed process 12266 (startlvt). Out of Memory: Killed process 12264 (lvt.scp.local). ./startlvt: line 714: 12264 Terminated $CMD >>$RUNOUTPUT_FILE Out of Memory: Killed process 12278 (lvt.scp.local). Out of Memory: Killed process 12280 (grep). Out of Memory: Killed process 912 (bash). Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 2.9.5AS (Taroon) Kernel 2.4.21-1.1931.2.393.ent on an ppc64 Out of Memory: Killed process 12679 (slocate.cron). Out of Memory: Killed process 12682 (updatedb). Out of Memory: Killed process 12783 (sshd). Out of Memory: Killed process 13160 (slocate.cron). Out of Memory: Killed process 13163 (updatedb). As you can see, many of the processes started by our startlvt script were being killed. Here is what I saw in /proc/meminfo. [root@doclinux root]# cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 743944192 738385920 5558272 0 356352 16756736 Swap: 756715520 3985408 752730112 MemTotal: 726508 kB MemFree: 5428 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 348 kB Cached: 14280 kB SwapCached: 2084 kB Active: 2068 kB ActiveAnon: 752 kB ActiveCache: 1316 kB Inact_dirty: 740 kB Inact_laundry: 0 kB Inact_clean: 14024 kB Inact_target: 3364 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 726508 kB LowFree: 5428 kB SwapTotal: 738980 kB SwapFree: 735088 kB I am going to rerun my test using the 411 kernel drop and see if I can avoid this problem.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.