From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: I tried to do a fresh install on a SuperMicro s2dge (dual PII 400 xeon) with Adaptec 2940 (all scsi), matrox G400, intel eepro 100. The 1st try hung about half way through (I went to bed with 4 hours to go, and the exact same time done & to go (and item) were there the next morning). So I disabled the cache & tried again on my way out the door to work, and when I got home I found a box on the screen with the summary message, and this: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/usr/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run File "/usr/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 551, in __call__ File "/usr/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1965, in doInstall File "/usr/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1656, in writeConfiguration File "/usr/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 863, in writeNetworkConfig File "/usr/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 173, in lookupHostname IOError: (Errno 28) No space left on device This install was from a downloaded copy on /dev/sdb, and /dev/sda is a new 18g drive with 1g swap, 200m /var, 8g /usr & the rest in /. Please email if I can answer more questions, Dan How reproducible: Always (twice anyway) Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot from floppy 2.tell it the image is on hd, in /dev/sdb1 3.wait hours & get the message found above Actual Results: got little box with info listed above Expected Results: System installs, I log in, Oh Happy Day. Additional info:
Was there any more to the error message? Usually there's a bit more information about the contents of the variables inside the function that the crash occured in. Also, when the machine is in the crashed state, can you go to VC2, type 'df', and post the output of that here?
Hey, Well I've tried 3 times now, and even though I still have the cache disabled, the install just hangs (each time at a different package). I switched to the shell, and / is full (2289 out of 2289 used), but the rest still have room. I've downloaded a bootnet image, so I'll have a go at that... Any other info that might be helpful? And thanks for the response! Dan
Success! - I started the install again last night, and this morning it's in the "An internal error..." state. There isn't any additional text in the error message beyond the bit about letting redhat know by opening a bug. And when I do the df: Mount Point 1k blocks Used Available / 2289 2289 0 /proc 0 0 0 /dev/pts 0 0 0 /mnt/runtime 3191 2409 702 /mnt/runtime/usr 4459 4027 432 /mnt/sysimage 10151832 874928 9276904 /mnt/sysimage/boot 54416 7167 47249 /mnt/sysimage/proc 0 0 0
Hmm..weird. How much RAM do you have? If you go to VC2 and type 'cat /proc/meminfo', what does it say? Is that the correct amount of ram in the system? Also, if you boot with 'linux ide=nodma', does that help? Also, go to VC2 and say 'ls -l /tmp/syslog'? What is the output of that? There's the chance that the kernel is having some sort of timeout errors with the SCSI drivers and the syslog is filling up the / filesystem. Also, something weird is that we usually mount a 4 MB ramdisk, and that is what the / partition is during the install environment. For example, when I do df on my test machine, I get: Mount Point 1k blocks Used Available / 4030 1007 3023 for the / partition. Yours is only 2289k in size...this strikes me as very strange.
There's 512M of memory in the system, and the /proc/meminfo looks correct. From the boot floppy I wasn't able to add any arguments (like the ide=nodma) - it complained. Is there a way to do that? The size of the /tmp/syslog is 8811. The network install via ftp didn't work - I started it Sat around 9a, and by noon Sun it still had more to go then it had done (and a check of the log said that there was only one file it had to retry). I live off a 512k dsl connection... I've downloaded a new copy of the iso images, rewritten the boot diskette & am having another go...
If you are still having problems with the new cd's, give this a try. Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma' at the boot prompt. Does that help?
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