Description of problem: This is beeing seen on a larg 64cpu HP ia64 system. I will try this on other systems to see if I can reproduce it. Install was CD boot then install over NFS. After installing all packages on a normal interactive install of fedora 7 (using both VNC and text on serial console interfaces) the installer dies with no error message: install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals...done ...... you may safely reboot your system I re-ran the install with loglevel=debug syslog=<ip of another host> here are the last few lines of output, no errors seen but hopefully it narrows it down: Apr 27 13:40:52 orca64.zko.hp.com INFO moving (1) to step postinstallconfig Apr 27 13:40:52 orca64.zko.hp.com INFO moving (1) to step writeconfig Apr 27 13:40:52 orca64.zko.hp.com INFO Writing main configuration Apr 27 13:40:52 orca64.zko.hp.com INFO self.hostname = localhost.localdomain Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 7 - test 4 anaconda-11.2.0.52-1 How reproducible: 100% on this system in our environment Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot from CD/DVD 2. configure network using DHCP 3. install using NFS source Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
a little more info... I booted an older install from another disk and mounted the disk I was doing this install on. This doesn't tell me much but here are the last few lines of root/install.log.syslog from the install: <86>Apr 27 13:40:20 useradd[10757]: new group: name=nfsnobody, GID=4294967294 <86>Apr 27 13:40:20 useradd[10757]: new user: name=nfsnobody, UID=4294967294, GID=4294967294, home=/var/lib/nfs, shell=/sbin/nologin <86>Apr 27 13:40:28 useradd[10786]: new group: name=haldaemon, GID=68 <86>Apr 27 13:40:28 useradd[10786]: new user: name=haldaemon, UID=68, GID=68, home=/, shell=/sbin/nologin <86>Apr 27 13:41:17 useradd[11173]: new group: name=xfs, GID=43 <86>Apr 27 13:41:17 useradd[11173]: new user: name=xfs, UID=43, GID=43, home=/etc/X11/fs, shell=/sbin/nologin <86>Apr 27 13:41:40 useradd[11780]: new group: name=gdm, GID=42 <86>Apr 27 13:41:40 useradd[11780]: new user: name=gdm, UID=42, GID=42, home=/var/gdm, shell=/sbin/nologin <86>Apr 27 13:41:40 usermod[11785]: change user `gdm' shell from `/sbin/nologin' to `/sbin/nologin' Let me know if there is any other useful data I can get off of this disk.
requested by Jams Antill
If you are still seeing this, please check tty4 for any kernel error messages.
sorry, I don't see this anymore as of Fedora 7 GA. I should have closed this a long time ago.