Bug 160919 – installer gets "could not set controlling tty" and hangs after "running /sbin/loader"

Bug 160919 - installer gets "could not set controlling tty" and hangs after "running /sbin/loader"

Summary:	installer gets "could not set controlling tty" and hangs after "running /sbin...

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 160918

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2005-06-18 11:51 EDT by Michael D Miller
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-06-18 11:56:53 EDT
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Description Michael D Miller 2005-06-18 11:51:25 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
Installer outputs "could not set controlling tty" and hangs after "running /sbin/loader". I have tried graphic and text mode and get the same result. FC2 and FC3 don't have this problem. I have retried them both.
Thanks,
Mike

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
10.2.1.5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start build from cd1 or rescue cd.
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Actual Results:  The system will hang until I <CLT ALT DEL>. It them dismounts the filesystems and reboots. I can't install FC4:-(

Expected Results:  The install process should have started text mode or graphic mode depending on input.

Additional info:

The graphics card is a Gforce FX 5700LE 256mg  AGP by BFG Technologies. MB is MSI MS6570, processor is AMD Athlon XP3200.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2005-06-18 11:56:53 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160918 ***

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