During an update of an existing RH 6.2 installation anacoda, in a text mode, decides that is needs more space (fair enough if not nice) and it goes into an infinite "prepare installation" loop without any chance to intervene in other way but by a power switch. What is more interesting that while it wanted an extra 251 MBytes the first time subseqent requests are for 323 MB. This is probably caused by an extra copy of an installtion image. I ended up with on a root partition and another one in /usr. Michal michal
Please repeat with the final 7.0 release to verify this is still a problem. I think we handled this issue after RC2.
I am including this comment from the user (unable to connect to Bugzilla due to network problems): This was with Beta CDs for Alpha. These CDs were made quite a bit later than RC2. I have no idea if you transferred bug fixes from i386 to this set. Repeating the problem could be a bit difficult. I had to reorganize my disk to finish an installation and I do not have now RH 6.2 with not enough space for an update. Also final 7.0 for Alpha does not exist yet, AFAIK.
Sorry, I didn't catch this was on the Alpha - obviously you can't try the final release out yet!
for the following scenario: alpha miata minimum 6.2 install w/all disk space used (NO free space at all...) upgrade to 7.0 using test tree 7.0-qa1017.0 fails with an rpm error right after choosing to "Upgrade system" at the install type ... (rpm fails because there is no space to upgrade the database) ... fails with: __db_assert:0 failed: file "/../dist/../common/db_err.c", line 200 install exited abnormally -- received signal 6 and then the install dies ...
I think that you found another failure mode. Note that in my case there was enough space to put one installation image on a root partition, and another one after the first failure on /usr, but it turned out that there is not enough space left for all packages to install (an update) and that triggered a looping with a power switch as the only "exit condition".