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GUI beta4 fresh install. Workstation install, gnome+kde+games. ABIT BP6 dual celery motherboard, 256 MB ram, adaptec scsi controller, scsi HD and CD-ROM. I used updated 07212000 image to run the GUI installer. "Performing post-install configuration" dialog went up to about 1/5th of the way through, then hung for something like 10 minutes. I think I've read previous reports of anaconda hanging like that. I didn't see any process burning up any CPU time, strace showed nothing unusual. The couple of strace-able anaconda processed were waiting for I/O. One was selecting something, the other one was polling something. The remaining anaconda processes weren't straceable, they were probably threads. And the X display was being refreshed, so it wasn't an X lock-up. Anaconda basically stopped for about 7-10 minutes, then continued on through. There were a couple of clues regarding what got broken: after the reboot, there was no /etc/issue, and the machine name was set to localhost.localdomain. I believe that this has to be some sort of random glitch that does not always happen, and is not specific to beta4. It feels like a python or an X bug.
*** Bug 14477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Release-Candidate #1
I have not been able to reproduce this or bug 14477 under beta 5. Please reopen if you continue to have this issue with beta 5.