Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 42392
Anaconda error after Package Dependencies but before X Configurator in Anaconda.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows Me; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: In anaconda, i am in a custom installation where i am choosing my packages. After anaconda checks for all of the package dependencies, it gives me an error. This happens before the X Configurator pops up in Anaconda. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pick the X Window System Package and the KDE Package 2. Wait for package dependencies checker to check the packages 3. Error comes up before the X Configurator comes up Actual Results: Anaconda Traceback Error: Traceback (innermost last): File "usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py" , line 1030, in run rc = apply(step[1](),step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 391, in __call__ carddb = todo.x.cards() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/xf86config.py", line 660, in cards lines = db.readlines() IOError: [Errno 5] Input/Output Error Expected Results: It should have brought me up to the X Configurator screen. Additional info: Anaconda Traceback Error: Traceback (innermost last): File "usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py" , line 1030, in run rc = apply(step[1](),step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 391, in __call__ carddb = todo.x.cards() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/xf86config.py", line 660, in cards lines = db.readlines() IOError: [Errno 5] Input/Output Error
I think that you have a bad cd. Can you look on VC3 and VC4 and see if there are any error messages about reading the cd?
"From bfox@redhat.com: +I think that you have a bad cd. Can you look on VC3 and VC4 and see if there +are any error messages about reading the cd?" What do you mean by VC3 and VC4? (I am new to linux) I also forgot to mention that i am installing this on a 486 AMD Processor, 24MB of RAM, and a hard drive with 519MB (Paritions are / root 419MB and swap partition is 100MB).
One more thing i also forgot to mention, i downloaded this from ftp.redhat.com and i also burned it to a cd. the cd has no scratches on it so i have no idea what could be the problem.
The official minimum memory requirements are 32MB of memory, but I think that you might be able to get it to work with 24MB. Anything less than 20MB is probably not going to work, though. I think that something might have gotten corrupted during the download. VC3 and VC4 means "Virtual terminals #3 and #4". You can access them pressing <Ctrl><Alt><F3> and <Ctrl><Alt><F4>. We send debug messages to those screens. To get back to the installer screen, press <Ctrl><Alt><F1>. I assume that you are doing a text mode install...the graphical installer takes more than 24MB of memory in order to run. If there are errors with the cd, there will usually be error messages on VC3 or VC4 about "cdrom seek errors" or something like that. If you see that, then your download of Red Hat Linux probably got messed up somehow.
Ok this is what the VC3 says: probing for ide floppies no ide floppies found looking for usb controllers no usb controllers found looking for video cards requiring agpgart module no video cards found tying to mount device hdb loopfd is 6 found url image cdrom://hdb/mnt/source getting ready to spawn shell now going to ins mod raid0.o (path is NULL) going to ins mod raid1.o (path is NULL) going to ins mod raid5.o (path is NULL) going to ins mod fat.o (Path is NULL) going to ins mod vfat.o (Path is NULL) going to ins mod ext3.o (Path is NULL) looking for usb mouse no ide floppy devices found VC4 had lots of things about sectors and other stuff,it was a lot to write down so i didnt, but inbetween the numbers it said attempt to access beyond end of device. Also, I do know that my floppy drive works, i dont know why it said no ide floppy devices found....thats how i got into the Linux setup. What i do to start the setup is i put a Windows Me startup disk and then it comes up with the prompt: C:\> then i go to D:\> and i go to D:\Dosutils> then i type in autoboot.bat and it loads. Do you know what the problem is?
Can you try booting with 'linux ide=nodma noprobe' and see if that works? The messages on VC4 makes it sound like the kernel is having some problem reading either the hard drive or the cdrom, but without the exact messages, I can't say for sure.
how would i do that? i boot the setup from DOS and not Linux. Linux isnt installed on my computer..it's just the setup program.
When you boot the computer with the Red Hat Linux disc 1 in the machine, you should see a bootup screen that says "Welcome to Red Hat Linux 7.1!" at the top. At this screen, type in 'linux ide=nodma noprobe' and press Enter.
well, i dont see that, my BIOS is kind of out of date it doesnt boot from a CD- ROM, so i have to go into DOS and load it. It just takes me to anaconda, the blue screen and it asks me if i have a driver disc
Then, I'd recommend making a boot disk with the boot.img file in the /images directory of the cdrom and then booting off that boot disk. Type in 'linux ide=nodma noprobe' when the bootup screen appears. Put your cdrom in the drive and then the boot disk will access it.
how would i boot the floppy? it keeps telling me it is not a system disk
Sounds like something is wrong with either the floppy disk or the boot.img file you made it with. Anytime you see the non system disk message, it means that something is not right with the floppy. The correct behavior should be that the system boots off the floppy and presents you with a "Welcome to Red Hat Linux" screen. What was the command you used to make the boot disk?
I used Winimage on Windows Me, should i use rawrite.exe? it just copied system files onto the disk. The hard drive i am installing Red hat linux with has nothing on it. i just use a windows startup disk (which brings me into dos) to install linux. so, should i use rawrite next time?
Yes, try rawrite.
when i try to boot it says Boot Failed: Insert another disk and press any key to continue. this always happens after it tries to load initrd.img. I also tried downloading boot.img again from a FTP site and make a disk from there. That didnt work.
Do you still have the ISO's that you used to make the cd's with? I'm inclined to believe that you have a bad cd. You can use a program MD5Sumer to check the md5sum on the ISO to verify that nothing got corrupted during the download. MD5Sumer can be found at http://cnet.com/downloads/0-10096-100-5902737.html?tag=st.dl.10000-103-1.lst-7-1.5902737 The md5sums should match: fc9c2c23b02d2a35b75845530db81743 7.0-respin-disc1.iso 0e77615754f281363c231b2d4b1806bb 7.0-respin-disc2.iso If the numbers that you get from md5sumer are different, then something got scrambled when you were downloading. Actually, I would recommend trying 7.1 if you have the time/bandwidth to download it.
well, the CD's came up ok. Nothing is wrong with them. I only have a 56k connection and it took me a while to get 7.0, so i dont really want to do that again. Any other ideas that would work?
i also got the boot disk to work. i can boot from the red hat linux 7.0 disc to the setup program. is there any commands i could type in where it says boot: to make the setup not give me that error?
I tried the 'linux ide=nodma noprobe' and i looked at VC3 and nothing happened. everything stayed the same. I typed it in where it said 'Welcome to Red Hat Linux 7.0!' at the top when the boot disk loaded. so it looked like this 'boot: linux ide=nodma noprobe'. Nothing happened there. Any suggestions?
After you typed in 'linux ide=nodma noprobe', did you press Enter? The bootup process should start after pressing Enter.
Yes, the the Linux setup started and everything, but i meant that it still probed and found the floppy drive and still gave me the error.
I also wanted to tell you that i tried installing Red Hat Linux 7.0 on another computer (Intel Pentium 133Mhz, 80MB of RAM, 1.26GB Hard drive) and it gave me the same error. It also could not find the floppy drive.
I can't explain why this would happen. Is the floppy drive enabled in the BIOS?
Yes, the floppy drive is enabled. Do you think there is an error in the programming code?
There could be, but I don't think so. I test booting off of floppy disks every day, so I know that this works. As to why this doesn't work on your machine...I just don't know. I'm out of ideas.
what program do Red Hat or just Linux professionals use to make a Linux CD from the ISO file?
cdrecord is a command line program to burn cdroms. There are graphical applications such as GCombust and XCDRoast that are GUI interfaces to cdrecord.
Well, what programs would run in Windows? I have never used Linux before. Plus, i am only 15 years old, so, i'm only learning. I don't know a lot about Linux commands.
Well, I haven't used Windows in years, so I don't know what people are using in Windows to burn cd's these days. I used to use the Sony CDRight! that came with my burner about four years ago. Basically, I think any cdrom burning program would work fine for burning the ISOs. In linux, you can burn a cd with cdrecord with a command like: 'cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 seawolf-disc1.iso' where '-dev=0,0,0' is the device number of the cd burner on the IDE bus.
Ok i'll try re-burning the CD with another program. If that doesn't work, my friend just got Red Hat Linux 6.2, so i will put that on instead. Thanks a lot for your help!