From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Unexpected abort dialog box during postinstall (after all packages) while installing bootloader. Harddisk fresh install of Workstation (minus openoffice-i18n, plus compat-devel tools) to reformatted ext3 root, use existing separate ext3 /boot, another ext3 filesystem also mounted. Saved debug info to floppy, and will attach. System would boot, but only in text mode, and I had no clue what to do with firstboot in text mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.1.1.3-1 How reproducible: Didn't try [yet] Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install Workstation: reformat existing ext3 as root, use existing ext3 /boot, mount one other existing ext3 filesystem. Machine multiboots several other RedHat and Fedora versions. 2. 3. Actual Results: Package install completes, postinstall configuration gets about 50% done, then unexpected dialog box with ananconda error and choice to Debug or Save to Floppy. Expected Results: No complaints. Additional info:
Created attachment 106840 [details] anaconda traceback dump saved onto floppy
Is this reproducible? It looks like we're trying to read a directory instead of a file, but I don't see how that could be reading the code. If it is reproducible, can you go into the debug prompt and type up up print bootDev ?
The first attempt to reproduce this bug, hung in package install at glibc-kernheaders ("15 minutes remaining"). The second attempt completed the whole fresh install successfully. Although the "white box" hardware has been reliably running RHEL3 (taroon), Fedora Core 3, and other systems, I then ran memtest86+ for 5 hours (4 complete passes) with no failures. Rebooting RHEL4 Beta2, I observed kernel bug and oopses: bug 139638. Trying to run up2date to check for a new kernel, I found xmlrpc.redhat.com was not responding. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.
Seen it again?
I did not try again. This fell off the bottom of the list of things to do.