Bug 22945 - bug in the installation procedure
Summary: bug in the installation procedure
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-28 15:46 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-01-29 18:21:46 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2000-12-28 15:46:30 UTC
I was installing RedHat linux 7.0 on my new PC, an intel celeron 667MHz on
an ASUS CUV4X-M mother board with 64Mb of RAM, and an ATI Xpert 32Mb
graphic adapter.
The graphic installation procedure crash after the mouse probing, giving
back "receiving signal 11" as error message. 

The textual installation procedure, obtained by typing "text" at the prompt 
"boot" crash with the following message:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in
run
    rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 66, in
__call__    height = height, help = "lang")
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/snack.py", line 502, in ListboxChoiceWindow
    l.setCurrent (default)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/snack.py", line 90, in setCurrent
    self.w.listboxSetCurrent(self.item2key[item])
AttributeError: listboxSetCurrent

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <snack.Listbox instance at 820b9f0>
item: 2

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>


Thank in advance for the attention.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-01-09 23:03:43 UTC
Assigning to a developer.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-01-10 23:32:34 UTC
Strange.  Were you installing from the cd-rom?  When exactly did the text mode
install fail?

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-01-14 00:59:17 UTC
You may be having hardware problems.  Make sure the memory and video card are
seated properly in the motherboard.  There's a chance that the cd could be
damaged.  Other than that, I don't know what to tell you.  What puzzles me is
that the installer is crashing before it really even does anything.  There's no
reason for the code to be failing there.  It's the signal 11 in the graphical
mode that makes me think this...that is frequently indicative of hardware
problems somewhere in the system.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-01-29 18:21:42 UTC
Are you still having problems with installing Red Hat Linux 7?

Comment 5 Brent Fox 2001-02-05 22:12:56 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.


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