Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 23674
graphical install dies at "Preparing to install..."
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:30:36 EDT
A 6.1 -> 7.0 upgrade consistently (3 times) halts at the "Preparing to install..." stage in graphical mode. The progress bar appears but never gets above 0%. A new message appears on virtual console 1 at this point: "Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x13f02)." I'm not sure what hardware info is relevant, so here's some of it: the machine is a PIII 600 w/ 256MB RAM on a Tyan Trinity 400 motherboard with the VIA Apollo Pro chipset. The video card is a Matrox G400.
What steps are required to reproduce this problem? We have not seen this issue internally.
These are the steps I follow to produce the problem: boot redhat install disk at "boot:" prompt, hit <ENTER> once the X installer is up, select "English" and hit "Next" select "Generic 104-key PC", "U.S. English", "Disable dead keys" - hit "Next" select "Generic/ 3 Button Mouse (PS/2)" - hit "Next" hit "Next" select "Upgrade" - hit "Next" hit "Next" (i.e., no package customization) deselect "Create boot disk" and "Use linear mode" - hit "Next" hit "Next" to begin upgrade Xlib error appears on VC 1 as soon as "Preparing to install" window appears
Assigning to a developer.
Were you doing a cdrom or nfs install? If cdrom, was it one you burned yourself? I haven't been able to reproduce this problem so far.
Yes, it was a CD that I burned myself.
I'm afraid that there might be some corruption either on the disk that you burned or the iso image that you downloaded. Check the MD5 sum of the iso and compare it to the one on the ftp site and make sure the image was good in the first place. Then, I'd recommend burning another cd and trying again. I can't think of any other reason why you'd get this error. Does text mode work ok? And if so, does testing the X configuration of the card work?
Please reopen if the problem persists with a new cd.
I have the same problem. It has happened on two different systems with two different RedHat 7.0 CD sets. I ended up going to RedHat 7.1 on one system, which worked. On the other system I am not prepared to go to RedHat 7.1. In a text mode install, anaconda crashes with Signal 11 at the same point (Preparing to Install). I have tried the updates disk.
The suggestion that a corrupted CD was the problem didn't pan out. The problem persisted with an official redhat CD which did have the correct checksum. The system on which I encountered the problem has been upgraded to redhat 7.1 without any trouble.
vaughn@giantstudios.com, I don't know what is causing the behavior that you are seeing. When the installer crashes, can you press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any error messages?
cengelbracht@as.arizona.edu, I don't have an explaination why the 7.1 discs would work but the 7.0 discs wouldn't. I guess we'll have to put this one in the 'unexplainable' bin. I'm closing this bug, but I will reopen it if vaughn@giantstudios.com responds.