Graphical install. Got as far as "creating a boot disk". Told it to create a boot disk. The floppy grumbled for a while, then anaconda froze up. Went to a terminal window on ctrl-alt-f3. The hard disk, with the installed system, was mounted. I am attaching the output of ps + strace analysis of the anaconda processes (there was a setxkbmap zombie process too). I've reproduced this twice. This was a stock server install, but NFS server was unchecked, and I told anaconda to wipe and partition the 9 GB disk by itself.
Created attachment 543 [details] autopsy of a locked up anaconda.
hmm ... I am having trouble reproducing this behavior ... does this occur for all occurences of boot disk creation (TUI and GUI) ...? does this occur regardless of install type (custom, server, etc.) ...? does this occur over multiple disks (ie no bad disk) ...?
textmode install is fine. i've only tried twice to do a server install, happened every time. will have to try some other types of installs. the attached ps dump shows setxkbmap zombie process. things must be crashing some time after setxkbmap is executed to do whatever it's supposed to do, but before the parent process has a chance to reap it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12284 ***