Bug 103718
| Summary: | install hangs after kernel install | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Neil Green <neil_green> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-09-05 16:32:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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If you were trying to reinstall a new Red Hat release over an old one this is not going to work. If you choose to upgrade from a previous release to a new one then that should have worked. Which case is this? I was trying to install a new release in place of an old one. I have a number of partitions /, /boot, /home, /usr, /var, I formatted /, /usr, /boot but wanted to retain some of the contents of /var so left it as was. You will need to backup /var, intall and format /var, and migrate the old files over post-install. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030717 Description of problem: During installation of RH9 over a previous RH7.3 install, the install process installed the kernel then hung. top reported that /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq was using approximately 99% CPU for over 12hours, until the machine was powered down. This occurred with both text and graphical installers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start RH9 install 2. Keep existing partitioning scheme (do not format /var) 3. Wait Actual Results: Install process stops after kernel install Expected Results: Install completes Additional info: As a work around, I copied files I wanted to keep from /var onto /home and chose to format /var. This allowed the installer to run to completion.