Machine is Gateway portable Solo 5300 XL, 256M memory, 20G hard drive. The support guy is at a loss. No matter what type of instellation I try, I end up with a frozen machine that only a power down helps. My best try is this: Got the latest 6.2 bootnet bootnet-20000407.img and update-disk-20000419.img boot from those 'boot: linux updates text' Give the parameters to connect to my Sun UltraSparc station. All seems well until I get the 'Welcome to ', with a frozen machine. When I try without the 'text' I get lots of messages about linux not grokking the display type, which is fine, since it is an unsupported S3 IX. but the same result. I tried replacing RedHat/instimage/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA with the latest version from Tim Roberts (http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html ) , and I even tried 'cp XF86_SVGA XF86_VGA16', but this this not work as well. I am at a loss and very unhappy. Please tell me how I might find what is wrong? Thanks, Joseph
What is the text on virtual console 3 when you do a text based install? You will want to switch over to it as soon as you can since your machine is freezing and you might not be able to switch once it has frozen.
* probing buses * finished bus probing * found nothing * trying to mount device hdc * probing buses * finished bus probing * found suggestion of i82635 * found suggestion of i82635 * found suggestion of eepro100 * found eepro100 device * found devices justProbe is 0 * going to insmod eepro100.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid0.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid5.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod fat.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod vfat.o (path is NULL) .... Frozen machine
thanks for your additional information ... this sounds like a known issue with 6.2 and some laptops ... the issue should be fixed in Red Hat Linux 7, please reopen this if it is still a problem ... thanks for your report!
While this might be correct, I think it is not very polite. At least you can say what you think is wrong, point me to the fix in 7.0, or anything. Are you expecting me to buy 7.0 now, just in the hope it has been fixed?
I downloaded comps,netstg1.img,netstg2.img ftp://ftp.clear.net.nz/mirror/ftp.redhat.com/redhat-7.0/i386/en/RedHat/base/ Created a net boot image disk. Tried to run using an FTP mode. I got a fatal error - here is the output. What does it mean? Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py", line 32, in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 532, in getHeaderList File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/urlinstall.py", line 76, in readHeaders TypeError: bad magic in header Local variables in innermost frame: self: <urlinstall.UrlInstallMethod instance at 8269690> url: <addinfourl at 137534824 whose fp = <addclosehook at 136459848 whose fp = <open file '<socket>', mode 'rb' at 824b6d8>>> hl: [] magic1: 1751411817 connected: 1 raw: hdlist: No such info: (1768711272, 540701811, 1931505486, 543712117) ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iurlinstall UrlInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'baseUrl' p6 S'ftp://joseph:%6c%61%62%32%74%6f%67%69@192.157.126.190/usr/rh70' sbsS'initlevel' p7 I3 sS'skipLilo' p8 I1 sS'progressWindow' p9 NsS'expert' p10 I0 sS'ddruidReadOnly' p11 I0 sS'bootdisk' p12 I0 sS'language' p13 (itodo Language (dp14 S'abbrevMap' p15 (dp16 S'es_ES' p17 S'Spanish' p18 sS'tr_TR' p19 S'Turkish' p20 sS'sr_YU' p21 S'Serbian' p22 sS'de_DE' p23 S'German' p24 sS'sk_SK' p25 S'Slovak' p26 sS'ru_RU.KOI8-R' p27 S'Russian' p28 sS'is_IS' p29 S'Icelandic' p30 sS'no_NO' p31 S'Norwegian' p32 sS'sv_SE' p33 S'Swedish' p34 sS'en_US' p35 S'English' p36 sS'it_IT' p37 S'Italian' p38 sS'da_DK' p39 S'Danish' p40 sS'cs_CZ' p41 S'Czech' p42 sS'uk_UA.KOI8-U' p43 S'Ukrainian' p44 sS'hu_HU' p45 S'Hungarian' p46 sS'fr_FR' p47 S'French' p48 sS'sl_SI' p49 S'Slovenian' p50 sS'ro_RO' p51 S'Romanian' p52 ssS'font' p53 (dp54 g38 S'lat0-sun16' sg22 S'cyr-sun16' sg28 S'cyr-sun16' sg36 S'None' sg26 S'lat2-sun16' sg32 S'lat0-sun16' sg34 S'lat0-sun16' sg48 S'None' sg50 S'lat2-sun16' sg52 S'lat2-sun16' sg24 S'None' sg20 S'lat5-sun16' sg46 S'lat2-sun16' sg18 S'None' sg44 S'cyr-sun16' sg42 S'lat2-sun16' sg40 S'lat0-sun16' sg30 S'lat0-sun16' ssS'langs' p55 (dp56 g38 g37 sg22 g21 sg28 g27 sg36 g35 sg26 g25 sg32 g31 sg34 g33 sg48 g47 sg50 g49 sg52 g51 sg24 g23 sg20 g19 sg46 g45 sg18 g17 sg44 g43 sg42 g41 sg40 g39 sg30 g29 ssS'info' p57 (dp58 S'LANG' p59 g35 ssS'map' p60 (dp61 g38 S'iso15' sg22 S'iso05' sg28 S'koi8-r' sg36 S'None' sg26 S'iso02' sg32 S'iso15' sg34 S'iso15' sg48 S'None' sg50 S'iso02' sg52 S'iso02' sg24 S'None' sg20 S'iso09' sg46 S'iso02' sg18 S'None' sg44 S'koi8-u' sg42 S'iso02' sg40 S'iso15' sg30 S'iso15' ssS'lang' p62 g35 sbsS'fstab' p63 NsS'lilo' p64 (ililo LiloConfiguration (dp65 S'liloDevice' p66 S'mbr' p67 sS'initrdsMade' p68 (dsS'edd' p69 I0 sS'default' p70 NsS'liloImages' p71 (dp72 S'hda2' p73 (S'dos' p74 I1 tssS'liloLinear' p75 I1 sS'liloAppend' p76 S'' sbsS'comps' p77 NsS'network' p78 (itodo Network (dp79 S'netdevices' p80 (dp81 S'eth0' p82 (itodo NetworkDevice (dp83 g57 (dp84 S'ONBOOT' p85 S'yes' sS'IPADDR' p86 S'192.157.126.170' sS'BOOTPROTO' p87 S'static' sS'NETMASK' p88 S'255.255.255.0' sS'DEVICE' p89 g82 ssbssS'gateway' p90 S'' sS'secondaryNS' p91 S'' sS'hostname' p92 S'han' sS'primaryNS' p93 S'192.157.126.190' sS'domains' p94 (lsS'isConfigured' p95 I1 sS'readData' p96 I1 sS'ternaryNS' p97 S'' sbsS'upgrade' p98 I0 sS'instClass' p99 (icustom InstallClass (dp100 S'rootPasswordCrypted' p101 I0 sS'nameserver' p102 S'' sS'x' NsS'rootPassword' p103 NsS'makeBootdisk' p104 I0 sS'installType' p105 NsS'postScript' p106 NsS'earlySwapOn' p107 I0 sS'networkDevice' p108 NsS'clearText' p109 Nsg64 (g67 I1 S'' tsg13 NsS'name' p110 S'' sS'postInChroot' p111 I0 sS'pixmap' p112 S'' sS'partitions' p113 (lsS'clearType' p114 Nsg90 S'' sS'mouse' p115 NsS'packages' p116 NsS'timezone' p117 NsS'zeroMbr' p118 I0 sS'keyboard' p119 NsS'groups' p120 NsS'bootProto' p121 NsS'netmask' p122 S'' sS'raidList' p123 (lsS'skipSteps' p124 (dsS'auth' p125 (I1 I1 I0 S'' I0 S'' I0 I0 S'' S'' I0 S'' S'' S'' I0 S'' S'' tsg92 Nsg63 (lsS'showgroups' p126 NsS'ip' p127 S'' sS'defaultRunlevel' p128 NsS'desktop' p129 S'' sS'clearPartText' p130 NsS'clearParts' p131 I0 sbsS'rootpassword' p132 NsS'extraModules' p133 (lp134 sg115 (imouse Mouse p135 (dp136 S'device' p137 S'psaux' p138 sg57 (dp139 S'XMOUSETYPE' p140 S'PS/2' p141 sS'FULLNAME' p142 S'Generic - 2 Button Mouse (PS/2)' p143 sS'MOUSETYPE' p144 S'ps/2' p145 ssS'emu' p146 I0 sS'wasProbed' p147 I1 sS'emulate' p148 I1 sbsS'ddruidAlreadySaved' p149 I0 sS'serial' p150 I0 sg117 (S'America/New_York' I0 I0 tsg118 I0 sg119 (ikbd Keyboard (dp151 S'layout' p152 NsS'model' p153 NsS'type' p154 S'PC' p155 sg57 (dp156 S'KEYBOARDTYPE' p157 S'pc' p158 sS'KEYTABLE' p159 S'us' p160 ssbsS'skipFdisk' p161 I1 sS'fdDevice' p162 S'fd0' p163 sS'installSystem' p164 I1 sS'setupFilesystems' p165 I1 sg125 (itodo Authentication (dp166 S'useNIS' p167 I0 sS'nisServer' p168 S'' sS'useLdap' p169 I0 sS'krb5Kdc' p170 S'' sS'useHesiod' p171 I0 sS'ldapServer' p172 S'' sS'nisDomain' p173 S'' sS'krb5Realm' p174 S'' sS'useLdapauth' p175 I0 sS'hesiodRhs' p176 S'' sS'useShadow' p177 I1 sS'nisuseBroadcast' p178 I0 sS'useKrb5' p179 I0 sS'useMD5' p180 I1 sS'ldapBasedn' p181 S'' sS'krb5Admin' p182 S'' sS'hesiodLhs' p183 S'' sS'hesiodDlhs' p184 S'' sbsg92 NsS'reconfigOnly' p185 I0 sS'x' (ixf86config XF86Config (dp186 S'monlist' p187 (dsS'keyModel' p188 S'pc101' p189 sS'monids' p190 (dsg137 NsS'monEisa' p191 NsS'server' p192 NsS'monHoriz' p193 S'31.5' p194 sS'devID' p195 NsS'modes' p196 (dp197 S'8' (lp198 S'640x480' p199 assS'keyOptions' p200 S'' sS'keyVariant' p201 S'' sS'monID' p202 S'Unprobed Monitor' p203 sS'keyLayout' p204 S'us' p205 sS'manualModes' p206 (dsg115 g135 sS'keyRules' p207 S'xfree86' p208 sS'monVert' p209 S'60' p210 sS'cardMan' p211 NsS'monSect' p212 S'' sS'primary' p213 I0 sS'vidRam' p214 NsS'probed' p215 I0 sS'monName' p216 NsS'vidCards' p217 (lsS'skip' p218 I0 sS'files' p219 S'\012# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the\012# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally\012# no need to change the default.\012\012 RgbPath\011"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"\012\012# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)\012# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of\012# the X server to render fonts.\012\012 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"\012 FontPath "unix/:7100"\012' p220 sbsS'users' p221 NsS'instPath' p222 S'/mnt/sysimage' p223 sS'intf' p224 NsS'hdList' p225 Nsb.
For some reason the keyboard on some laptops will freeze up at this point. If you can suspend and un-suspend your laptop after it has appeared to freeze does it help?
I am not sure what you mean. This time it did not freeze, but crashed. I got the option to save to the diskette (which I did, and this is where the report above comes from), or "debug". Then it said "you can safly reboot ..." Does the report above seem to indicate a keyboard problem, which froze 6.2, but crash 7.0? When it did freeze, all keyboard keys are not responding. How can I "suspend" or "unsuspend"? -JOseph
I'm sorry, I completely misunderstood your comments. I think your problem here is the mirror site you were using had problems. Try using a different site to install from and let us know if it does better.