Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186120
Install hangs immediately after "Probintg for video card
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:26:06 EST
Description of problem: In text mode, immediately after anaconda says "Probing for video card" the screen becomes solid blue, In Graphical mode, immediately after anaconda starts X (The big X cursor is on the black background at this point), the floppy drive light flashes and then anaconda consumes 99.9% of the CPU and never does anything else. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5 x86_64 DVD anaconda How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. As in description. use "linux" or "linux text" Actual results: Install process hangs forever. No activity ever again in the ttys. Expected results: Smooth install like all my 32 bit machines. Additional info: In text mode, the last thing on tty1: Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait... Probing for video card: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0092 <then screen turns solid blue> In X mode, the last thing on tty1: Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait... Probing for video card: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0092 Attempting to start native X server Waiting for X server to start...log located in /tmp/X.log 1...2...3...4...5.... X server started successfully. Starting graphical installation... tty2: sh-3.1# <fully functional shell, run top here and see 99.9% anaconda, anaconda is at 67M and not apparently growing.> tty3: ... INFO: anaconda floppy device fd0 tty4: <6>device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com <4>program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO tty5 and tty6, nothing Contact me directly at wwalker@bybent.com for more detail. The machine has an existing SuSE10 install, so I can run most commands on it to give you hardware info.
Can you grab /tmp/anaconda.log, /tmp/X.log, and /tmp/Xconfig.test?
I finally decided that what was strange about my system was the disk drives. I have a sata drive (master on second sata controller) and an IDE drive (SLAVE on the secondary IDE controller) and a DVD burner (MASTER on secondary IDE controller). I didn't set up the hardware. I received the machine with SuSE10 on it so I assumed the setup was sane (mistake number one). Disconnecting the IDE drive allows the install to continue! My problem is solved (assuming it will boot properly after install finishes and I reconnect the IDE drive), but this is still a bug someone else might run into. I am still available to perform any test you need to gather data on this bug.
I have exactly the same symptoms but a completely different hardware setup: Intel celereon, 1.7 GHz, 32-bit, two PATA drives,( no SATA) and used the i386 DVD of FC5. When I do a text install, the first screen goes blue, when I do a graphical install, I just get the big X in the middle of the screen. The system is alive, but Anaconda is using 99% of the CPU as shown by top on screen 2. Screen 4 log shows a floppy search as the last message.
Created attachment 128743 [details] Anaconda log Fedora at least used to install !
Created attachment 128747 [details] system log at hung installation
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
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