From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: Booting from rawhide boot.iso of 2004-11-25, anaconda crashes with signal 6 after loading /sbin/loader with error messages about glibc. *** glibc detected *** invalid next size (fast): 0x08d16768 *** This is an AMD K6-2 @ 380MHz w/320MB RAM on an Asus P5A-B mobo all the peripherals as utterly standard and work in FC3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.2.0.4-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. burn boot.iso to CD-RW with cdrecord (several tries) 2. boot from CD 3. hit return at boot prompt Actual Results: The usual booting messages until: running install... running /sbin/loader *** glibc detected *** invalid next size (fast): 0x08d16768 *** install exited abnormally -- received signal 6 [sending signals and emergency shutdown] Expected Results: normal anaconda boot sequence Additional info: see Description and Actual Results
Confirmed on AMD XP1700+ 1.5 Ghz 512M ram The memory location varies but otherwise the same issue. Mon Nov 29 01:27:08 $ ls -l boot.iso && md5sum boot.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 taj taj 5801984 Nov 27 07:01 boot.iso 59f97aa63bb7e1ce9748944554d8051a boot.iso
Fixed in CVS
rawhide of 2005.01.09 works okay
G.Wolfe Woodbury, Thank you for the confirmation