Description of problem: Unable to install rawhide (devel) Fedora on IA64. The rawhide tried was rawhide-20060514-ia64 and also the lastes Rawhide as of May 24th also did not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rawhide-20060514-ia64 How reproducible: Boot the system from boot.iso image burnt on CD and select FTP and provide the path where the devel tree for iso exist. Here is all the options that I tried for installation of Fedora on IA64 and all the below options fails. 1) Tried X - X does not work, say waiting and switches to text mode 2) Text mode - Anaconda crashes right after package selection and before package dependency is completed. 3) VNC mode - Reports that libX11.so.6 can not shared lib. File not found error. And Vncviewer fails to connect. However FC5 bits available from ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fedora/download/FC5/ works (able to install)via VNC mode on IA64 tiger4 box. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from boot.iso and select FTP and provide devel tree path. 2. Select either text or vnc and continue to install the OS 3. Actual results: Fails to Install. Expected results: Should be able to Install the FC for IA64. Additional info: Tried on IA64 Tiger4 box (Fails on both Madison and Montecito processors)
>1) Tried X - X does not work, say waiting and switches to text mode Hmmm ... is this because it isn't detecting a video card? Or a monitor? >2) Text mode - Anaconda crashes right after package selection and before >package dependency is completed. Could you cut-and-paste the crash?
>2) Text mode - Anaconda crashes right after package selection and before package dependency is completed. Just tried this and cannot reproduce this issue. I'll connect with grgustaf to see if he has a system that I can use to attempt to reproduce this issue. Geoff -- do you have a tiger4 system that I could borrow? P.
>3) VNC mode - Reports that libX11.so.6 can not shared lib. File not found error. And Vncviewer fails to connect. I seem to get a bit further along with vnc than Anil did -- however it does fail with the following error: WARNING!!! VNC server running with NO PASSWORD! You can use the vncpassword=<password> boot option if you would like to secure the server. The VNC server is now running. Please connect to altix2.lab.boston.redhat.com:1 to begin the install... Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'mini-wm' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadRequest'. (Details: serial 72 error_code 1 request_code 146 minor_code 2) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) aborting.. I'll enter in a gdk bug for now and see if it's a known issue or not ... P.