Bug 138226 - Installer hangs at the beginning of 'Installing Packages'
Summary: Installer hangs at the beginning of 'Installing Packages'
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-05 20:46 UTC by Ton Mol
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-21 20:54:59 UTC
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Description Ton Mol 2004-11-05 20:46:59 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Standard installation from DVD which passed the mediacheck.
Default partioning on two small HDD and 1 sata-HDD.
Boot and swap on the small (1200mb) HDD's.
It looks like partioning is failing.

The system has also Windows XP home installed on the sata-HDD.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start computer with DVD
2. graphical installation of linux, no options used
3. following the installation-procedure until 'Installing Packages'
4. system halts
    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-08 14:36:03 UTC 
Does booting with 'linux ide=nodma' help?
Comment 2 Ton Mol 2004-11-09 21:17:10 UTC 
I'm afraid, it doesn't.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-11 16:35:33 UTC 
Can you switch ttys when this happens?  If so, are there any errors on
tty3 or tty4?  Can you get the output of ps aux from the shell on tty2?
Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2005-09-21 20:54:59 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity.  If you have more information to add to this report,
please reopen and add the additional information requested
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