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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdksmp i686) Description of problem: Intalller fails while running anaconda System Outline ------------ Dual PIII Gigabyte 6VXD7 Motherboard with VIA Chipset 128 Mb Ram 20 Gig WD ATA 100 nvidia TNT2 Video Creative Lab DVD-1243E Eagle TR3 Drive two Realtek (PCI-NE2000 compat) NIC Logitech PS2 Mouseman+ 17 Samsung Generic VGA Monitor UPS APC 600 Currently System is Running Redhat 7.0 with no Problems... When I start to run the install from the CDROM #1 to upgrade my RH7.0 system to 7.1 after Anaconda start I get the following error Running anaconda - please wait... xxx lineno: 76, opcode:0 'import exceptions' failed; use v for traceback Warning! Falling bac to string - based exceptions install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signals ... done sending kill signals ... done disabling swap... unmounting fialsystem... /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnr/source unmount failed () /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system Any help so that I might get the system upgraded would be welcome... How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install CDrom RH7.1 #1 2.boot system 3.hit enter at the boot: prompt 4. error as described above. Actual Results: Running anaconda - please wait... xxx lineno: 76, opcode:0 'import exceptions' failed; use v for traceback Warning! Falling bac to string - based exceptions install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signals ... done sending kill signals ... done disabling swap... unmounting fialsystem... /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnr/source unmount failed () /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system Expected Results: System should boot in to Xwindow and ask me to select the language as installation instruction state. Additional info: System Outline ------------ Dual PIII Gigabyte 6VXD7 Motherboard with VIA Chipset 128 Mb Ram 20 Gig WD ATA 100 nvidia TNT2 Video Creative Lab DVD-1243E Eagle TR3 Drive two Realtek (PCI-NE2000 compat) NIC Logitech PS2 Mouseman+ 17 Samsung Generic VGA Monitor UPS APC 600 Currently System is Running Redhat 7.0 with no Problems...
Can you try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'? Does that help?
I tried as you suggested as it still fail but not I fail with both xxx lineno: 76 : opcode: 0 and xxx lineno 35: opcode: 0 ready for your next suggestion...
Are you sure that the cd's are good? This is a pretty bizarre error messages. I haven't seen anything like this before.
The are right out of the red box (I got it from Best Buy two weeks ago) and I was able to install 7.1 on my test computer just fine. In fact i have been running 7.1 on my test system for about 10 days with no problem. It is just the production system needs to be upgraded. In fact you can see 7.0 running just fine by looking at my web page www.acknet.net I just can't upgrade the system from a working 7.0 to 7.1 I really want the 2.4 kernel. Is there any other information that I can provide you to help... If you go to the www.giga- byte.com web page and look for my mother board would that help. Here is the product discription of my board http://www1.giga-byte.com/products/6vxd7.htm it is a good board. If you think I need new disks what would I need to do the get better/good/fixed/whatever you think I need disks.
Do you have any other machines that you can test this cd out on? I've got a bad feeling that the cd is damaged somehow, because this error message usually denotes some kind of data corruption (in this case, on the cd). If the same thing happens on another machine, I would return the cd's to Best Buy and exchange it for a new set.
The "XXX lineno: 14, opcode: 0" is an internal Python error that can only happen due to corrupted input opcode streams. This points to one of the following: 1) bad media 2) bad CD-Rom drive 3) bad IDE controller 3) some bug in the kernel that causes data read from the CD-Rom drive to be corrupted. I'm assigning this to the kernel, there's nothing more the Anaconda team can do to fix this one.
Ok. I'd appreciate "lspci -v" output (from 7.0, that's fine) and output of "cat /proc/ide/*/model" ... That would give me more exact information about your hardware.
Here is the info you requested. I really want to get this working ASAP. [root@admin bill]# cat /proc/ide/*/model Maxtor 52049H4 CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD1243E pci [root@admin bill]# I have RH 7.1 working on another system. And it worls just fine in fact I use it as a workstation. This system that I am having the problem with is my Development/firewall/server. Is there anything else I can send you...
Here is the rest of the information you wanted: Linuxconf 1.25r3 Host name: admin.acknet.net File /proc/version Linux version 2.2.19-7.0.1smp (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc versi Output of command: /usr/bin/uptime 4:49pm up 23:21, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 File /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 498.172 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge bogomips : 992.87 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 498.172 cache size: 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge bogomips : 996.14 Output of command: /sbin/lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff Memory behind bridge: dde00000-dfefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d9c00000-ddcfffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (re Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (r Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at ffa0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10) Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19 I/O ports at cc00 Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10) Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19 I/O ports at d000 Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (re Flags: medium devsel Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029( Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18 I/O ports at d400 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029( Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19 I/O ports at d800 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device 2060 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 I/O ports at dc00 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev Subsystem: CardExpert Technology: Unknown device 8888 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at da000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Expansion ROM at dfef0000 [disabled] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
If your firewall has about 1.3 Gb of free space, could you try the following: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/seawolf-i386-disc1.iso (with CD1 in the drive) dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/seawolf-i386-disc2.iso (with CD2 in the drive) (you can also pick another location for the destination files) You can do a harddisk install now. If this succeeds, it means the cdrom-drive is the problem, if this also fails... I have to think of something else. Oh, and if you have a network, please do this on the other machine as well and compare md5sums of the iso's to make sure they are identical between drives..
I am currently at work right now (10:15am CST) and I will try your suggestion as soon as I get home (6:00pm CST) and let you know the results. Again thanks.. Will anyone be in over the weekend? I would Like to solve this quick.
I usually read mail in weekends
Ok I ran the code you suggested: Here are the results: [root@admin/share] # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/seawolf-i386-disc1.iso hdb: ATAPI 40XDVD-ROM drive, 512 Cache hdb: irg timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hdb: ATAPI reset complete 1314120+0 records in 1314120+0 records out [root@admin/share] # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/seawolf-i386-disc2.iso 1306372+0 records in 1306372+0 records out [root@admin/share] Ready... for next suggestions...
Now, if you can get those files on your firewall machine, you can make a bootfloppy and do a "harddisk install". The harddisk-install will use the .iso files; if that succeeds it is a cdromdrive thing.
I tried what you suggested on Saturday and still no luck... I still get the same error. So sunday I got a brand new CD-RW and HP-cdwriter 9500i (on sale at SAMS for $119.91 great deal for an HP Burner). Again, RH7.0 saw the new drive and the reassignment of the old drive. In fact I am on the 7.0 system now so I know that it isn't the CD-Rom then I tried to install from the NEW HP drive and I am getting the same error. as before. So on a whim I get a second HD a WD 30 Gig ATA100 and pulled out the old drive to do a virgin installation and still I get the error as stated above.... HELP!!!!!What else can I do!!!! I even went so far as to hunt down the lates bios for this system and installed it... Still no luck.... I even sent Alan Cox an e-mail to ask him about possable problems with the VIA chipset and kernel 2.4. He told me that it only is a problem with the AMD + VIA combo with 2.4. So I shouldn't be having this problem. Any other suggentions I might try. Would you suggest trying to install another distro on that blank 30Gig just to see if it works?
I'm out of normal things to try, so maybe this strange thing is worth a shot: if you "dd" CD1 to 2 different .iso files (eg do it twice with a different filename), do the md5sum's match ?
I will try as you suggest. Here is a follow up note... I download another Distro just for kicks and grins (Mandrake 8.0) and tried to install it on that blank 30 gig HD. I get the same error signal 11. Does that help "you are not alone!" I really want my Redhat 7.1:( What in kernel 2.4 installation could be going belly-up is there a way for me to capture the install to a file and send it to you? the reason why I ask is a lot of stuff flies across the before I get a blue screen and anaconda start and the crashes. Is there a parameter to write what is going on as RH 7.1 starts to a floppy disk file? The I can send you my actual boot dialog if that would help.
Ok, so it sounds more like a 2.4 kernel issue. Could you try the following: download the 2.4.3-5 kernel from rawhide (yes I know that sounds unstable but the 2.4.3-5 and 2.4.3-7 kernels are VERY stable) and try it on the 7.0 installation? (you will have to --nodeps --force install it)
Ok, then here is what I am going to do... On the blank 30 Gig dh I am going to install RH 7.0 and then I will install Rawhide on top of that. I really don't want to mess up a working system. I will try to do it tonight 5/22/01 but that depends on what my wife wants me to do from the "Honey do" list. I'll let you know how it goes... Keep your fingers crossed... Thanks again for your time...
Here is my current staus, I have just installed RH7.0 It went as smooth as a babies bottom. I am now getting the Rawhide kernel.
I have a question. I downloaded the 2.4.3-5 kernels as you suggested and I thought that I linked the new kernel correctly inside the /boot directory, but when I reboot my system, I think it is still booting into 2.2. What can I check to be sure that I have the links correct? The variable KERNEL still has 2.2 listed as the version. What do I need to check/change?
Check /etc/lilo.conf and remeber, everytime you change that run /sbin/lilo
Ok.... Here is the scoop!!! 1) I was able to link and configure 2.4.3-5 I needed to run /sbin/lilo and everything fell right into place... 2)Good news the SMP version of 2.4.3-5 booted and ran fine.... 3)Bad news the single processor version failed like a stuck pig and here is the results: Starting kswapd v1.8 <---the last good lin during the boot. Invalid operand: 000 Cpu: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0129acb>] EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebc: c13012b4 ecx: c13012ac edx: c13012ac esl: c13012a5 edi: c020a241 ebp: 00000000 esp: c1307f90 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid:1, stackpage = c1307000 stack: c1307f94 00000020 c028a90c 00000000 c0105000 0008e000 c0258414 c020a234 00000010 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000 c024e942 00000001 c024e9d2 c024dfc4 00010f00 c024dfc4 c01050e9 00010f00 c024dfc4 c0105000 0008e000 call trace: [<c0105000>] [<c020a234>] [<c01050e9>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105596>] [<c01050e0>] Code: 0f 0b 8b 12 81 fa fc 6d 23 c0 75 d9 8d 43 5c 89 41 04 89 4b <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init I think this is the problem... If I am not mistaken, when you install/upgrade the system it runs in single processor mode.... I think this is our error...
Ah Ha! http://people.redhat.com/dledford/440gx has a special bootfloppy that emulates most of an SMP kernel when you pass the "apic" parameter on the syslinux prompt. (btw, 2.4.3-5 has such a parameter as well) That might be worth trying
Ok, this is what I'll do. 1) I'll try to install RH7.1 as a virgin install on the test disk that I have been working with the boot floppy I just made. 2) If it works I'll then re-install RH 7.0 and try to do an upgrade to RH 7.1 3) If that works I'll let it run for a time as a test system. 4) If that goes well I'll then do a backup of my production system and run the upgrade to RH 7.1 using the boot floppy and see how that goes. Is there anything else I should look at or do?
I still get the same error Ahhhhhh!!! What is going on here!!!! Do you have any other suggestions?
Hay guys, Do you have any other suggestions?
You did specify "apic" as option to the new bootfloppy ?
I thought I did it right. Please could you tell me the correct way to add the "apic" option to the floppy boot. I have created the Image from the link you provided ehdn the boot prompt comes up what do I type? boot: what?
"linux apic" (without the ""'s)
That is exactly what I typed... Letter for letter. It still crashed.... I will try again... but what else could I try.
One more idea: what happens if you boot with "mem=126M" (yes 126 not 128)
Still no luck, I tried both the floppy and the CD and had no luck. I tryed all possible combos of "linux apic mem=126m" and "mem=126m" alone on both the floppy image you gace me and the CD boot any other suggestion I can try?
I had a problem pop up with Windows ME that has been very inconsistant. I think that it might have a baring on the error that I am having with RH7.1. It seems that one out of ever two boots into ME results in a VKD error and locks the windows system so I went out to the web to find out what VKD was and found that it is a keyboard driver. And the error is from a bad signal from the Keyboard. So this afternoon I am going to go get a logitech keyboard and try it to see if it fixes the ME error. Then I'll try it on RH7.1 after all is said and done I'll let you know the results. I have had my current Keyboard for over 3 years and have had no problems that I know of. So lets see what happens if I swap keyboards. I'll keep you updated with the results...
No luck. I got two different Keyboards and in both cases the install fail after anaconda started. Please give me some guidence.
is there a newer version of anaconda/kernel/syslinux that I can try. I am so frustrated.....
Please provide some help, I have switch my key board and mouse I have tried everything that I can please help me......
I'm out of useful ideas.. maybe an NFS install will work (eg make a floppy from bootnet.img and copy the contents of both cd's into a directory on your other machine, NFS accessible)
Still no luck. God I feel Stuck.... Is there anyone else we could send this to that might have some insight. Could there be a memory issue, CPU issue, Chipset issue, at this point I am willing to try just about anything.
Hi, I am having a similar problem installing 7.1 on a new system: Mobo - Gigabyte's GA-7DX Processor - Athlon Thunderbird 1200 Video - ATI Xpert98 AGP (a RageXL chip with 8M) Adaptec 19160 scsi controller card Seagate 18.4GB 15rpm Cheetah scsci disk 3com etherlink PCI server NIC adapter 512Mg DDR SDRAM - Mushkin Creative Labs - CD 52X EIDE cd-rom I have tried recommendations here and on bug 29555 as I appear to have both the aic7xxx problem and the signal 11 problem described here. I have installed using the new images with apic option, the ide=nodma option, removed the scsci card and tried installing on a 10G IDE drive, all with no luck. Sometimes the installer can't recognize the CD when in expert mode, others I can't get past the Xserver starting. When I am lucky (or unlucky as I spend more time selecting the packages) I get to the format one or two partitions and then receive a critical error indicating formating can't go on (Ctr+Alt+F1 sometimes shows scsci error, and sometimes CPU errors). I am curious about Alan Cox's comments on problems with the AMD+Via combo, as this is my case. I bought the Deluxe Workstation box with 60 day install support, but the support so far was to check bugzilla, which I already had. Very dissapointing. I am open to suggestions.
What is the difference between 2.4 and 2.2 installation that would cause these types of problems, maybe someone from redhat should send Alan Cox a message and see what he says. This is a real bummer guys...
Unfortunately looking at the report I have no idea beyond what has already been suggested. Reading the report Im pretty sure the CD-ROM is fine, the CD images are fine and something else is causing memory corruption. The fact the SMP kernel works and the uniprocessor one fails is in itself quite odd. That is backwards to the normal case. The only thing that SMP does not do that uniprocessor does is APM. I would be interested to know if a kernel built without APM support worked. Arjan - does our install kernel have APM or not ? Alan
BOOT kernel doesn't have APM (it takes space :)
I just saw somthing on Linuxtoday from Alan Cox, Would this help you in debugging my problem. Here is the web page... http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-22-008-20-PS
I am going to try something this week, tell me what you think. Currently, I have 128 megs of ram, I am going to up it to 374. Do you think that it will make any difference?
Also interesting would be using ONLY the new ram
Still No luck I get the same error. Here is what I did. 1) pulled out the old memory and put in a new chip from a different vendor. and tried to install it dies after Anaconda. I even ran it with the different parameters as stated above. apic and mem=126M and ide=nodma. 2) I installed more memory now at 256M tried the same thing still no luck even with paramteres. Any other suggenstion. Has anybody else reported error with this type of motherboard (Gigabyte) and the VIA chipset?
Alan Cox just released a fix to the VIA Chip set. Could you please let me know if this is useful to me. The chip set sound just like the I have IE sound on the mother board. Please Get back to me quick I really want to get this going...
As I reported, I had a similar problem with a Gigabyte's GA-7DX. The only way to be able to install was to lower the Front Side Bus speed to 100Mhz through the board jumpers. This lowers the processor speed as well. Don't know if this relates to your problem, but its worth a shot.
I'll have a more detailed look, but afaik we had this already in 2.4.2-12
carloseduard, You are running an AMD processor, correct? I am running two P3 500e. I don't think it would act the same. If arjanv says to try it I'll hunt down a way to slow down the bus if I can.
Hay people whats happening..... I don't want to be stuck out here for so long.
Hay!!!! Roswell is out on beta, Should I get a copy and try it on my system??? I really want to get this going.... Please, please respond to this message... Has Anaconda been updated. would this be a vaild test.....
Anaconda is updated A LOT. So it's worth testing it, even if you only do a minimal FTP install if you don't have lots of bandwidth.
You can certainly try it - my feeling is that it wont make any difference because the problem seems to be hardware not software
You were right Alan. It still won't run after anaconda start to load. Now, I have a question for you. Why do you think that it is a hardware error? The same conputer is running with no problem RH7.0 in SMP. SHould I look for a new motherboard? What type would you recommend for dual p3 500e? I want to try to save all my hardware other than the motherboard. Should I just dump everything and start from scrach?
Is there any one out there!! Tell me what you think I should do/try...
Hay Guys, Please Talk to ME... What other options do you suggest?
I've nothing else to suggest. We have other folks with the same mainboard, same bios and same basic setup running RH 7.1. The traces you have post all point to "impossible" situations and look like hardware issues. 2.2 and 2.4 will load memory and use things in different ways. The fact your windows me has crashes also sounds the same thing.
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/