Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: frustratingly Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to perform fresh install of F7 on Thinkpad T42p w/ 1GB RAM 2.Try to install more than a bare minimum of packages 3. Actual results: After about 1100 packages, anaconda starts to flog swap and eventually hangs Expected results: Install succeeds as it did with FC6 on the same machine w/ same partition scheme, and FC5 before that, and FC4 before that ... Additional info: memtest86+ finds no problem with RAM and system sailed through a forced fsck under FC6, so I believe that the disc is OK. sha1 sum of i386 DVD iso image I began with checked out, and I have been able to perform network installs to other machines from the exploded Fedora on my build server, so I believe that the installation medium is OK. I have 1GB RAM and a 80GB disc with 4 primary physical partitions: 100MB /boot, two 2GB swaps, and the rest is one LVM physical volume. There are 5 logical volumes under LVM: 15GB /, 2.5 GB /var, 2.5GB /tmp, 15GB /home, and 30GB /usr/local. At first I tried to simply reformat my /boot, swaps, /, /var, and /tmp, while preserving /home and /usr/local. I chose to do a network install from NFS from my build server as I habitually do. As the install progressed, system grew slower and disc activity grew, until install finally hung, I could painfully switch to other ttys, if I waited about 5 minutes, but sh# prompt was defunct and the only problem on the other ttys was a warning from anaconda about progress.py from much earlier in the install. I ultimately had to do a hard power-down. I tried again with the same partition setup but installing from a DVD that I burned from the sha1-checked iso image, which also passed the medium install check. Same failure. In fact same thing happens with every install method I tried with any usable set of packages selected, even after I wiped the disk and started from scratch. A few times, but not every time, one of the ttys would show a stack trace which I didn't want to transcribe by hand, esp. since the top had scrolled off the screen. Checking bugzilla, it appears that others have encountered some problems that could be the same, but are still open, presumably since they don't have sufficient information in them. I did find a mention of an updated image in bz 241991 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241991), but using it didn't help. I was able to do an absolutely minimal install by unchecking everything and using the default partition scheme (which doesn't really meet my needs). That is how I installed memcheck86+, but I dread having to add all my accustomed sw by hand. Manually adding all my accustomed sw seems an overly daunting task.
Created attachment 161710 [details] A representative install log, captured by adding syslog= to the boot commandline
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