LTC Owner is: gjlynx.com LTC Originator is: krisw.com Problem description: Tried to install FC5 from the IBM site: http://software.linux.ibm.com/pub/fedora/core/test/4.90/ This failed with "Unhandled exception. Installing xorg-x11-drivers - 0.99.2- 3i386. x.orgx11 driver installation package" The system boots up with a grub > command line and a limited number of recognized commands. When I reboot, it cannot read the CD ROM drive, and I can't reinstall. I believe the CD ROM device driver has been deleted. I have the anacdump.txt file which was produced by the failure if anyone wants it sent to them. The build is an old FC5 build from 11/21, so the Fedora people may not want to look at this. Hardware Environment Machine type (p650, x235, SF2, etc.): x335 Created an attachment Dump from anaconda exception We were able to use rescue to get the drive working again. Attempted reinstall resulted in the same failure. I'm also getting an anaconda unhandled exception on an x86_64 system attempting to install the 12/15 rawhide, so this seems to be a continuing problem. Created mirror request (id=5025)Red Hat Bugzilla Please mirror to RedHat. Thanks re-assign to RedHat team for FC issue.
Created attachment 122328 [details] anacdump.txt
---- Additional Comments From krisw.com 2005-12-16 14:35 EDT ------- Attempting to install the 12/16 rawhide on opteron (x86_64) again had an Unhandled exception. It has hung trying to get the text, so I can\'t provide more details. The message says to file a bug against anaconda.
It looks like you have bad media -- <4>hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03 } Did you verify your media using mediacheck?
---- Additional Comments From krisw.com 2005-12-20 13:57 EDT ------- We have been experiencing a variety of Unhandled exceptions when trying to install i386 or x86_64 sytems from the console in our lab. I believe the problem was also experienced on ppc. We found that it seems to be related to the monitor used by our rack-mounted systems. If we do \"linux askmethod vnc\" and install using VNC remotely, we don\'t have these exceptions. The rack monitor is an IBM ThinkVision L150p 15 inch flat panel PC monitor connected via a Belkin KVM switch panel. Installation doesn\'t seem to be able to handle this monitor when we install via boot.iso or CD install.
There are multiple read errors from your CD. This is what's causing your problem (that and probably hitting some of the bugs that are genuine that we continue to fix as we're deep in our development cycle)
---- Additional Comments From krisw.com 2005-12-22 12:46 EDT ------- Please check the aspect of an unrecognized monitor causing unhandled exceptions. We found that CD\'s which had exceptions when installing in the lab via the lab monitor could be used when install was done via vnc and we went back to the lab to insert CD\'s when prompted. This was experienced using different sets of CD\'s, not just the one used in the original report.
Please file seperate bug reports for seperate issues with the appropriate traceback for the issue. I can see no way that a monitor would cause the I/O Error in the traceback above.
---- Additional Comments From krisw.com 2005-12-22 13:29 EDT ------- Perhaps that particular case was the result of a bad CD, but we know from other cases the CD\'s were good and the difference is whether or not install is done on the console in the lab or remotely via VNC. This will be a serious problem for us in the future.
Then please file seperate bugs with the appropriate tracebacks. There is no information here currently we can use to diagnose your problem. I have performed many successful installs of rawhide - as was mentioned earlier we are deep in our development cycle, and some days things may be broken but currently it should be installable. I have heard no other reports of failure with monitor, but success with vnc so I can not hope to diagnose with out the appropriate traceback.
---- Additional Comments From krisw.com 2005-12-28 14:44 EDT ------- Currently I can\'t get far enough into install to get more info because the recent boot.iso\'s aren\'t letting me get as far as actually downloading files (ltc bug 20454 - linux askmethod fails.) When I can retry, if I still get Unhandled exceptions and if more info is available I\'ll add to this bug.
changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|OPEN |REJECTED Resolution| |NOTABUG ------- Additional Comments From krisw.com 2006-01-06 13:35 EDT ------- Today I successfully installed the 1/5/06 x86_64 rawhide using linux askmethod and using the lab console - no problem. Thanks!