Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 38052
Installer exits after error when running lilo.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:53 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Installer exits when trying to install lilo Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Putting redhat seawolf disc1 in DVD-ROM 2. Booting from redhat seawolf disc1 3. Configuring installation options 4. Starting installaion 5. After installation (I guess lilo is tried to be installed) i get this error message from descreption note: i've tried 3times - same error every time Actual Results: anacdump.txt: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 19, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 2081, in doInstall self.hdList, self.upgrade, langlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 462, in install catchfd = 2, closefd = 1) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 108, in execWithCapture raise RuntimeError, command + " can not be run" RuntimeError: /mnt/sysimage/sbin/lilo can not be run Local variables in innermost frame: argv: ['lilo', '-r', '/mnt/sysimage'] root: / stdin: 0 closefd: 1 command: /mnt/sysimage/sbin/lilo searchPath: 0 catchfd: 2 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'1600x1200' p4 sS'progressWindow' p5 (igui ProgressWindow (dp6 S'total' p7 I445 sS'window' p8 (igtk GtkWindow (dp9 S'_o' p10 <failed> --------- during shut down of installer i could see another error message: /mnt/sysimage umount() failed ! Expected Results: lilo installs and i can start using redhat 7.1 :) here some info 'bout my hard disks: hda: hda1: fat32 (~1GB) hda2: swap (133mb) hda3: ext2 (~8GB) / hda4: fat32 (~20GB) hdb: hdb1: ext2 (23mb) /boot hdb2: fat32 (~20GB) hdc: hdc1: fat32 (~2GB) pioneer dvd-rom a05sz (firmware rpc1-patched :)
Created attachment 16645 [details] error message anaconda gives
Did you buy the product or did you download it? If you downloaded it, I think either something got corrupted during the download or the cd is bad somehow. When the installer crashes, can you press <Ctrl><Alt><F3> and <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if you see any error messages (like 'cdrom seek error)?
i could fix it somehow! i'm not going to install again and check for error messages :) i downloaded BUT i did md5sum check and everything was o.k.! i still got some problems with lilo (can't boot windows) and it took me long till i could install lilo (had to install lilo from cd, then install kernel from cd, ... :)
I'm happy that you seem to have found a workaround. Unfortunately, if I can't reproduce the problem, then I don't have much hope of fixing it.
i'm happy you can't reproduce! could the problem be my HD? when i run fsck on /boot i get lots of errors... and when i try to install lilo there is a warning for windows (/dev/hda1) and if i try to boot windows from lilo i'm getting error 0x31 or 0x30 (can't remember - sorry)
Yeah, sounds like something's wrong with the hard drive. I can't be sure, but it sounds that way. The drive may not be physically damaged, though...it could just have a corrupted partition table or something like that.
yeah.... i've tried fdisk /dev/hdb and i got an error telling me something with partition table.... but after i unmounted /boot i had all the kernel files still in /boot so /boot is a directory on /hda3 which contains all boot-files instead of everything being on /dev/hdb1 (which should be mounted on /boot).... i don't think redHat could have made such a mistake that it is not mounting those partitions which i choose a mountpoint for in installer.... i know the following should get an extra bug id but some others may have posted already: when i make a new user for myself in the installer and the click "OK" i don't get any message and the user isn't added in the table below.... i thought "maybe the user was created but not entered in the table" but after i booted my system just user root was there!