Description of problem: Running Fedora 0.95 graphic installation generate a "Fatal IO error 104" Hardware: AMD Athlon 600Mhz, 640 MB RAM 133Mhz, MotherBoard Asus K7V. VGA: Guillemot Prophet II GTS (NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS with 32MB DDR) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Fedora 0.95 CD 1, press Enter, scan cd or skip scan, wait for the error. 2. 3. Actual results: The X server starts, The X mouse cursor appear, the mouse is working, but immediately exit with those errors/Messages: Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait... Probing for video card: NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS (generic) Probing for monitor type: Acer AC711 Probing for mouse type: Generic - 2 Button Mouse (serial) 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. XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":1.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... 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 Pressing ALT+F3 the lasts lines in the log are: * Running anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda * Display mode = g * Method = cdrom://hdc:/mnt/source * Started mini-wm Expected results: Additional info:
Were you switching vc's at the time? Can you hit ctrl-S right at "install exited abnormally" and look at /tmp/X.log?
No, i was doing nothing, just waiting for the GUI to show. Here are the important parts from X.log: (after the "Markers" explanation) (++) Log file: "/tmp/ramfs/X.log", Time: Thu Oct 16 03:53:35 2003 (++) Using config file: "/tmp/XF86Config.test" (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist, 0) error opening security policy file /etc/X11/server/SecurityPolicy (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) DevInputMice: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "DevInputMice" Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! cat: //.Xauthority: No such file or directory ------- END The mouse, serial, attached to the COM1, is a Logitech (MouseMan), 3 buttons, no scroll wheel.
I get the same error "XIO: fatal IO error 104", but only if I keep moving my mouse when installation tries to start X server. I can reproduce this error always and I get past this error only when I don't touch the mouse. Hardware: Athlon XP1800+, 256MB RAM DDR, MSI K7T266 Pro2 VGA: NVIDIA GeForce 3 Ti 200 128MB Mouse: Logitech optical USB wheel mouse (recognised as 3 button USB during the probe)
I did some tests. With the Logitech serial mouse attached (moving or not), X fails to start. I removed the mouse from the COM1 and attached a no-brand PS/2 mouse to the PC, and the graphical installation started. I tried also with a Logitech USB 3 buttons with wheel (no optical), and the installation starts without problems, even moving the mouse. But the mouse is recognised as "Generic". Now i have to verify if i can reach the end of the installation. It seems the problem is with some Logitech mouse... With RedHat 9 it worked without any problem. Maybe the mouse driver is changed?
Does /tmp/XF86Config look like it has the right configuration for a serial mouse?
Here is the XF86Config section regarding the mouse: Section "InputDevice" # (comment) Identifier "DevInputMice" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection
There should be another mouse section with the serial mouse -- can you attach the complete /tmp/XF86Config?
Created attachment 95239 [details] XF86Config.test file Yes, I missed the first part. Here is attached the XF86Config.test
*** Bug 108609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Jeremy, I can reproduce this behavior on my test machine. The problem only occurs for me with a serial mouse. Also note that the problem does not occur when using the bootdisk.img floppy...maybe because the boot floppies have a different kernel than the CDs?
Also note that doing a TUI install is a workaround. The serial mouse will work fine in XFree86 after installation.
Thanks to for the work around. I received this same error after installing successfully on a ps/2 mouse machine AMD XP 2200+ PC. I thought the problem was an old matrox millenum II card with 4 megs of ram first. However, a nvidia on another PC AT machine on the same KVM switch experienced the same problem right when anaconda started X. Both of these PCs are FIC mother boards with k6-2 AMD 500 mhz chips and serial mice and AT keyboards. Another note of interest is that I do have a PS 2 Logitech wheel mouse pluged into the serial port via a PS 2 to serial adapter. The KVM switch serves these two PCs. The boot floppy was the solution. The boot.iso is a cool idea. Just for grins I tried it with the same failure. Perhaps the boot ISO should be created in emulation mode for old mother boards that don't implement eltorrito properly and with the same kind of kernel that the boot floppy sports. Perhaps the core 1 release notes should be updated too. I checked there first before bugzilla. http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/
Same problem here with FC2T3. When i move the mouse during X11 starting, X11 crash (XIO: fatal IO error 104 ..... ) mouse : Generic - 3 Button Mouse (PS/2) Athlon XP 1600+, 512 MB, main board MS-6380 V2 (K7T266 Pro2). lspci : 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 00:05.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 03) 00:06.0 Multimedia controller: Sigma Designs, Inc. REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD Decoder (rev 02) 00:07.0 ATM network controller: STMicroelectronics ST70137 [Unicorn] ADSL DMT Transceiver (rev 10) 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06) 00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 7a)
With FC1 I also observed anaconda crashing at this step with same errors (while not touching the mouse) on 2 different systems. The solution, on both, was not to skip CD verification! I checked the 1st CD, then continue installation and it was ok. Weird.
Serial mice are no longer supported with anaconda.
I understand this bug is closed, but I find the same behavior with fedoracore 4. I have an ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC video card, a microsoft wheel mouse (PS-2). If I install from an FTP server, using the boot.iso image, I receive the following: ... Probing for video card: ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC Probing for mouse type: Generic - 3 Button Mouse (PS/2) Attempting to start native X server Waiting for X server to start ... ... X server started successfully [about here, the screen goes black, as usual, button there is about a 20-30 delay, then I receive the following] mini-wm: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :1.0. [Now there is a blinking cursor underscore] at this point a control-alt-delete will shut the system down and reboot I have tried the ftp install from several different computers using the same model of video card as well as other video cards. This result is consistent always when using the ATI card. If I use the CD install, I have no errors and fc4 works fine (except on machines with the Intel 845 chip where I experience the libvgahw.a bug ). If I use a text mode install from ftp, the install fails while installing rpms. If I use a 3D Banshee 9941 video card, I always get an error during rpm installs regardless of how I install.