Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1468
Hanging during package scan phase of upgrade
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:49 EDT
Im unable to upgrade a 486-33 from RedHat 4.0 to RedHat 5.2. Ive tried both local CD-ROM and NFS install, in both cases the process hangs while "scanning packages". Doing a local CD-ROM install: Alt-F3: (last 2 lines before hang) * making symlink from /tmp/rhimage to image * psFromHeaderListDesc read 573 headers Also FWIW, cdrom wouldnt eject without a power-down, with a simple reboot, the eject button doesnt work. Doing NFS install, Alt-F4 says; <4>NFS server 192.168.1.254 not responding, still trying <4>NFS server 192.168.1.254 OK <4>NFS server 192.168.1.254 not responding, still trying <4>NFS server 192.168.1.254 OK <4>Couldn't get a free page 192.168.1.254 is running Redhat 5.1, and NFS works between 2 machines for normal boots. I dont know what the free-page problem is about, but cant find any log-file entry that helps to explain it. Last, cdrom spun up just after NFS IPs were set during install, pings from .254 work to the .100 machine, ie the one doing upgrade. In both cases Alt-F2 prompt was really sluggish (even for a 486), I waited 15 minutes for a 'ps' before giving up. Im using recently downloaed images 06012 1440 boot.img.new 65505 1440 supp.img.new
If your machine contains 8 megs of ram or less then that is what is causing the problem. We are working on a solution to this and will post an update when it is finished. Until then one possible workaround is to upgrade the ram to at least 16 megs for the install process. You can then downgrade back to 8 if needed after.