Description of problem: I have made a custom install. i wanted to delete a SuSE reiserfs partition on my second hard drive and install fc5test3 on this. As I do not have DHCP in my network I also added the network data by hand. After I typed in the root password twice Anaconda reported an error. I could go to Debug. As I do not know how to save the traceback I can not provide it right now. If someboy gives me instructions how to save traceback from install, i could provide more details. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: every time Additional info: I also have an old FC4 stable release on hard disk that i did not want to overwrite.
I tried both FC5 test2-AMD64 and FC5 test3-x86 (32bit) on Sun Ultra 20. Both crash during install shortly after root password and disk partitioning windows of graphic install. Boot loader install was not chosen. I couldn't save debug info to floppy because my machine doesn't have one. Hardware info: Sun Ultra 20, 2.2Gig AMD64 Athlon Nvidia NVS 280 graphics card (recognized as Quadro Fx 330) Philips 230W monitor (recognized) NOTE: FC4 32bit runs great on this machine. Under FC4, the graphics driver automatically chosen is VGA driver (generic).
One of the options right there on the screen is to save the traceback. Alternately, if you switch to tty2, it's saved as /tmp/anacdump.txt
(In reply to comment #2) > One of the options right there on the screen is to save the traceback. > Alternately, if you switch to tty2, it's saved as /tmp/anacdump.txt Right there on the screen are three options: Save-to-floppy, Debug, and OK. As I said, I don't have a floppy. I'll try switching to tty2 (I assume with the Alt-Fx key combination?) and try to save it, although it doesn't make sense to me since /tmp doesn't exist if I'm in the middle of an install (it crashes immediately after root password screen). I'm thinking that the video driver probed by Anaconda might be the problem. If there is a way to continue using the generic VGA driver for the rest of the install, perhaps that would solve it.
Created attachment 125185 [details] anaconda dump file created after exception
It looks like there was an error reading your media. For FC5 final, we definitely need to be wrapping this one like we do reading packages with retries so that we at least catch this instead of just tracebacking.
I got the same exception when installing the AMD64bit version from a DVD, from installing the 32bit x86 version from a CD-RW, and from installing the 32bit x86 version from a CD-R. Here's what I'll try next: I'll download the disk1 32bit x86 iso image again, burn it to a CD-R, and try again.
The sha1sum value of disk1 did not match SHA1SUM file value. I downloaded another iso image of disk 1, checked the sha1sum, and then SUCCESSFULLY installed FC5 test3. I recommend closing this bug.
We concur.
4 of 5 of my ISOs also had a bad checksum. I never had that before. Thilo