Ok, this isn't a biggie in terms of bugs, but after the install starts copying files to disk, if you ALT-CTRL-F2 away from the X installer window, the install will eventually crash.
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Beta-3
What video card were you using?
Creative Labs Annhilator 2 GTS ... I'll provide more information tonight on what it is detected as and such. Let me know if you need more information such as lspci output.
lspci -n is helpful. Do you know which chipset is on the card?
lspci -n output: 00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:0305 (rev 03) 00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:8305 00:07.0 Class 0601: 1106:0686 (rev 22) 00:07.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 10) 00:07.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 10) 00:07.3 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 10) 00:07.4 Class 0600: 1106:3057 (rev 30) 00:0b.0 Class 0100: 10cd:2300 00:0d.0 Class 0200: 100b:0020 00:0f.0 Class 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 04) 00:0f.1 Class 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 01) 00:11.0 Class 0200: 1317:0985 (rev 11) 00:13.0 Class 0180: 1103:0004 (rev 03) 01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0150 (rev a3) lspci -v for the video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 (Geforce2 GTS) (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1047 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 and for thoroughness, here is a piece of the XFree86 startup from *after* a successful install. (This text isn't from an install!) XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-8smp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 18 19:05:33 2001 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "Anaconda Configured" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "NVIDIA GeForce 2 (generic)"
How would we reproduce this issue? I'm not seeing this problem with a Geforce 256 card (admittadly a older nVidia card).
I have tested a card with the same PCI id and do not see this problem. Will wait for feedback from user on how to reproduce issue.
I have finally figured out what I did to cause this. It took a lot of experimentation before I could reproduce it. Having reproduced it, I have a much better idea of what is going on! I choose all the defaults and let the installer start installing packages. Then I CTRL-ALT-F2 to switch to the shell. In the shell, I: cd /mnt/source and I wait. The installer will die, hard. The first time this happened, I was poking around to see what was mounted, etc, while the install was going on. I've seen it die in a couple different ways. In one, the machine just hangs. CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing. In the other, the installer complaints and quits gracefully, unloading all the disks and all like it does when an install is over. Just poking around in the various mounted file systems and cd-ing around causes this to happen. OK, I just reproduced the whole thing again. Right after the installer starts copying files, I went to the shell window and entered: cd /mnt/source and then later, df and after a while, the installer switched me back to console one, showing the following: shutting down shut down install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... and so on.
Thanks, assigning to a developer.
This defect is now considered MUST-FIX for Florence Release-Candidate #1
I too am unable to reproduce this problem. There must be some weirdness in the hardware.
Is there anything I can do to provide more debugging information? Or could you perhaps make a version of the installer which will display more debugging information so we could narrow down where it is failing? I have a cable modem, so I'm able to download and burn CD's, if that is required.