Bug 1711 – Installer dies with signal 7

Bug 1711 - Installer dies with signal 7

Summary:	Installer dies with signal 7

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Matt Wilson
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Reported:	1999-03-23 16:29 EST by chbm
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-04-06 14:43:22 EDT
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Description chbm 1999-03-23 16:29:07 EST

Situation: FTP upgrade from RH5.1
Hardware: 486 16M ne2000 clone IDE

When "Finding which packages to upgrade" install receives
signal 7 and stops.
The only particularity of this system is having an old
slackware / on /dev/hda3 and the RH5.1 / on /dev/hdb3.

Comment 1 chbm 1999-03-23 16:58:59 EST

Changed /dev/hda3 a weird partition type (HURD :)) and the installer
still dies.

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 1999-03-25 21:15:59 EST

try running "rpm --rebuilddb" on your old redhat system and run again.

Comment 3 Matt Wilson 1999-04-01 00:50:59 EST

I guess that worked, since I've heard nothing.

Comment 4 chbm 1999-04-01 04:28:59 EST

Actually i stoped beating it. And this 03/25/99 comment only reached
me today (together with closing comment). I will try rebuilddb tonight
and post a forward.

Comment 5 chbm 1999-04-01 13:14:59 EST

rpm --rebuilddb did not help.
However, installing via NFS does not trigger the problem.

Comment 6 Matt Wilson 1999-04-06 14:43:59 EDT

probably a stale stage2.img causing the ftp/http failures.

Comment 7 patrick 1999-04-12 17:10:59 EDT

I've seen this happen for a number of reasons.  Particularly it was
happening for me over a RH 5.2 distribution on a P120 64M ne2K/tulip
upgrade (the machine has 2 nics in it, but the install was going over
the tulip nic).  This was with RH 5.9.7 upgrade over NFS using the
bootnet.img disk.

Comment 8 patrick 1999-04-12 17:12:59 EDT

err .. meant to say I've also seen it happen on a straight NFS install
when the RPM's for the distribution were last updated with an old
version of genhdlist.

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