Description of problem: After booting from current rawhide "boot.iso", install method "http" is selected. After entering the download server info and confirming the latter, the installer terminates, issues "loader received SIGSEGV!" and invites the user to reboot the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.1.0.73-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from "boot.iso" (2006-07-29) 2. Select "http" install method. 3. Enter download server method and confirm. Actual results: Installer terminates w/o proceeding to downloading "stage2.img" Expected results: Installer proceeds to downloading "stage2.img" Additional info: This is a regression with respect to the previous rawhide push which had "anaconda-11.1.0.72-1".
The affected system is an "IBM ThinkPad T23 (2647-CG7). On an additional "DELL GX260N", the installer even crashes producing a bluescreen as reported in bug #195766.
With today's tree (anaconda-11.1.0.73), I'm hitting the name resolution error present in the URL grabber in loader. I fixed that problem this morning. If I enter the IP address of the HTTP server, it works fine. I was able to get a SIGSEGV if I proceeded with an HTTP installation, but have the Ethernet cable disconnected. Looking in to that.
I have just tried "anaconda-11.1.0.74-1", and I am able to perform an install unless I add >= 2 boot parameters, including e.g. "hda=CHS", "resolution=AxB", "skipddc" etc. If, for example, I simply add the disk geometry and nothing else it will work. The same for the other options. I conclude that there is a problem with the parsing of the boot parameters.
This problem has been corrected in the latest rawhide builds.