From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: When I try to install FC5test2 on a VMWare virtual machine (WS 5.5.1) the installer crashes at unpredictable moments with the message 'GC Object is already tracked' I've run memtest86-3.2 on both the virtual and on the physical machine: no memory errors where detected. I've tried different memory setups and different disk configurations (IDE/SCSI-BusLogic/LSI). I tried the install from the DVD iso image. VMWare can publish this as a physical drive to the virtual machine. The crash always occurs somewhere between the start of package selection and the start of instalation. The exact point is variable, but I never get past resoving dependancies. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a new virtual machine with the ISO image as cdrom drive 2. Boot from the virtual DVD drive 3. Walk through the installation menus Actual Results: The installer bails out with a fatal error as described above Expected Results: The installation should complete Additional info: Contact me if you want me to try things out
This works fine on physical hardware and an error like that really sounds a lot like a VMware bug.