From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) After the installer completes installation of all packages, the machine locks and becomes unresponsive. This happens, everytime in text mode and graphical mode, workstation, server or custom install. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install any variation of Redhat 7.1 in any mode (text, expert, graphical). 2. 3. Actual Results: Unable to install Red Hat 7.1 Expected Results: I had expected Red Hat 7.1 to complete installation. First attempt was with the graphical install, after all packages were installed and progress indicator/elapsed time matched the estimated time to complete, the computer became unresponsive. See below for additional information. For the graphical install, randomly clicking the mouse in frustration crashed the X server for graphical installer window and showed the following output: ...X server started successfully Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x130a51)! Gdk-WARNING**: GdkWindow 0x401564 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING**: GdkWindow 0x401563 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-ERROR**: Bad ID Choice serial 1247840 error_code 14 request_code 53 minor_code 0 install exited abnormally sending term signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... /tmp/swap/hda5 unmounting filesystems... /mnt/sysimage/boot /mnt/sysimage/proc /mnt/sysimage/umount failed () /mnt/runtime /mnt/source /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system During a text mode install, all packages are installed and the installer proceeds to the "Performing Post install configuration" screen, but the progress indicator stops at about 5-10% (same spot everytime). Just to be certain I left the install running like this overnight, even though package copying etc. only took about 8 minutes or so. Here's my computer specs: Processor: Pentium Pro 233 Mz RAM: 128MB (60ns) Mboard: ???? some generic P-PRO board umm.. 440FX chipset CD-ROM: NEC Multispin 6V HDD: Western Digital 2 GB (MDL #: WDAC22100-00H; P/N: 99-004219-00) NIC #1: 3COM 3C595 NIC #2: 3COM 3C900 Some notes: 1) You may notice the processor speed, yep it's overclocked, but it ran like that for nearly 2 years straight before I got a new box, and all previous versions of Redhat that I've tried (5.x, 6.x, 7.0) have installed fine. Also, I've recompiled kernels without problems, so it's very stable at 233 Mz even though I bought it as a 180 way back when. 2) This is the first attempt at running a 2.4 kernel on this machine. 3) All 7.1 installation attempts have configured the firewall options with high security and custom ports for SSH and FTP. I have either assigned IP's, set both cards to DHCP, just set to activate on boot, or not set to activate on boot. Results are the same, although, I've not reproduced the X Server crash on a server install.
I have seen this behavior before in GUI mode, but never in text. Also, the GUI behavior was usually unreproducible. The install would hang on me in the post-install with the progress bar somewhere between 80-100%. I would reboot and do the exact same thing and the problem would not occur again.
Please look on VC3 and VC4 to see if there are additional messages. The gtk+ related messages are just noise the gtk+ library is making. It appears part of the post-install process is crashing.
I suppose I should be a little more clear on a couple of things. 1)The X-Windows crash out in the graphical install only occurs during the Workstation install, I believe. I've only had that happen, twice, and I believe it was during an X-Windows attempted install. Graphical mode always locks after package copying/installation and I never receive a "Performing Post Installation Configuration" screen in graphical mode. Actually, I guess I should say I never saw it, perhaps it was there, I've been switching between inputs on the monitor and may have missed it previously. On my most recent install attempt, I did see it for a quick moment and it showed the same progress as indicated in text mode before it dissappeared. Also, I have discovered the virtual terminals and here's what seems to be relevant towards the bottom of each virtual terminal: <ctl>+<alt>+<F1> ...X server started successfully Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xa3007)! Gdk-WARNING**: GdkWindow 0x40080f unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-WARNING**: GdkWindow 0x40080e unexpectedly destroyed <ctl>+<alt>+<F2> I found the X.log file and typed "tail X.log" in /tmp sh-2.04#tail X.log (--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 0K @ (nil) (--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 16 (--) FBDev: Hardware accelerator: None (--) FBDev: No driver support for hardware acceleration bpp = 16, depth = 16, BitPerRGB = 6 (--) FBDev: Using cfb16 driver error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy SetMouseSettings - type: 6 brate: 1200 srate: 0 chdmid: 0 em3but: 0 em3tim: 50 res: 0 flags: 0 SetMouseSettings - succeeded sh-2.04# <ctl>+<alt>+<F3> *no IDE floppy devices found *Detected 128M of memory *Swap attempt of 128M of 256M *Maximum cylinder is 25 *self.network.hostname = localhost.localdomain *Error running ['/usr/sbin/authconfig', '--kickstart', '--nostart', '-- enableshadow', '--enablemd5', '--disablenis', '--disableldap', '-- disableldapauth', '--disableldaptls', '--disablekrb5', '-- disablehesiod']: /usr/sbin/authconfig can not be run <ctl>+<alt>+<F4> <4>hdc: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM drive, 128 kB cache, DMA <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format. <6>raid0 personality registered as nr2 <6>raid1 personality registered as nr2 <6>raid5 measuring checksumming speed <4> 8regs : 367.200 MB/sec <4> 32regs : 212.000 MB/sec <4>raid5: using function: 8regs (367.200 MB/sec) <6>raid5: personality registered as nr 4 <6>Adding swap: 66488k swap-space (priority -1) <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A The above data was from a graphical server install without any NIC's.
When poking around in VC2, I found that /usr/sbin/authconfig does not exist, which may explain why it cannot be run. I almost want to volunteer that perhaps the CD's that I burned from ISO's are bad, but If that were the case I would expect a failure during package copying/installation. I appended comments to bug #: 37592, as there seem to be similarities in system type and unexpected installer exits.
It would appear I have bad ISO's, I've just installed CygWin on my win2k box and performed an md5sum --check and disc-1 failed. Disc-2 checked out ok. I will redownload disc-1 and re-attempt an install. If I can, I'll change the status to NOTABUG, and reopen it if I have problems. I'm going to go beatup my ftp software now. What's odd to me is that my disc-1.iso is the same size as what's on the servers, but I guess it's not quite right. Sorry to have wasted your time.
It's ok. This happens a lot. I wish downloads were more reliable. It's amazing that the 'net works at all.
*** Bug 43897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***