From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: Following error message occured when anaconda tried to load x-server: Traceback: File "/usr/bin/anaconda" line 1131 in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py" line 664 in run id.keyboard.activate() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/keyboard.py" line 126 in activate executil.execWithRedirect(argv[0], argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/executil.py" line 81 in execWithRedirect os.execv(command, argv) OSError: [Errno8] Exec format error I am on the following machine: Dell Latitude LS, 10gb HDD, 256 RAM, 2 BLANK DOS partitions (256 Mb, 11000 Mb). Currently, NO OS is on the machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert Fedora Core 2 Install disk 1 into machine and start up 2.Go through the media test -- everything passes 3.Do nothing else! Error occurs when x-server tries to start up. Additional info:
Are there any errors on tty4 when this occurs?
not that i can discern. screen goes blank, then the aforementioned dialog comes up with details of the error. also note, install occurred sucessfully on 3rd attempt. first two tries generated this error, third try went all the way through (but then just hangs on the reboot).
Switching to tty4 (ctrl+alt+f4) should let you see kernel messages to see if there are any read errors.
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