Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 28925
Install crashes in expert text mode
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:40 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-0.1.9 i686) In expert text mode install crashes when preparing to install packages. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. At the syslinux boot prompt type "expert text" 2. Choose the following options (maybe not in exact order): english/cdrom install/no driver disks/custom install/install everything/manual partition using disk druid/added one non-root user/default security options.. ie. md5 & shadow.. no kerberos etc./medium strength firewall/ I think that pretty much covers it Actual Results: In expert text mode install crashes when preparing to install packages. I attempted a total of 4 installs using "expert text" from the syslinux prompt. 3 of those 4 crashed. the first machine this happened on was a compaq ipaq. the install went through on the second attempt. I thought it might just be flakey hardware until the same thing happened on my home machine twice. after the second time i tried the graphical install and it went through alright. It crashes when it is preparing to install the packages. it gets and unexptected sig 11. Expected Results: Expected to install successfully
What is the error it gives when it crashes?
Ok i tried an expert text install on my picturebook and got similar results. The installed aborted just after it began to install packages. The following errors were displayed: install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signals...done sending kill signlals...done disabling swap... /tmp/swap/hd8 unmounting filesystems... /mnt/sysimage/boot /mnt/sysimage/home /mnt/sysimage/proc /mnt/sysimage/var /mnt/sysimage/tmp /mnt/sysimage umount failed (16) /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnt/source /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot yoursystem
i believe it died while installing the db3 package. after playing with it a few times.. messing around on virtual consoles, it seemed to get through the install process ok. I didn't change anything tho.
Just checked the MD5 sum and it looks like it failed. I could have sworn that i checked it earlier. oh well. this is probably the source of the problem. I will double check that it is not the source of my other bug report as well.
I reinstalled with a good cd and the problems no longer occured, so I think this bug can be closed.