Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 23070
RH7 installer crashes after Anaconda starts, line 33
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:30:25 EDT
1st, happy newyear! ok here goes. I am trying to install RH7 on an IBM thinkpad 390, 32 Mb RAM, 3Gb HD (of which 1,2 for a win98 partition), USB ZIPCD (iomega) Parallel ZIP100 (iomega), PCMCIA Sitecom 10/100 Mbit FastEthernet card, Neomagic 256AV sound/videocard. I downloaded the RH7.0 iso from a mirror, burned it. inserted, rebooted. the startupscreen asked me if I want to install in graphic/text/expert etc mode. usually I choose text, but all of the modes show the same problem. The kernel decompresses, nice and fast, detection of hardware goes smoothly, untill this message pops up: Running anaconda, this may take some time file "usr/bin/anaconda", line 33 syslog = Syslogd (root, new Object ^ Syntax Error: invalid syntax install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnt/source umount failed (16) /dev/pts /proc You may safely reboot. Bummer. Thinking maybe the image was corrupted in some way, I downloaded the image from a different mirror. Also tried the image that said 'RH7respin' (whatever that may be, is it an update?) Same problem. I then pulled out the RedHat 6.2 Professional which I bought sometime earlier, and inserted that. The installer works fine, and RedHat 6.2 installs smoothly. I could try the RH7upgrade ISO, but that doesn't solve the problem. Unfortunately, I have no other systems available to try the installer on. Thanks for taking the trouble to look into this, kind regards, Michiel van Mil dv8@home.nl
That line should read: syslog = Syslogd (root, open (output, "w+")) It looks like your files are corrupted.