Description of problem: Installation fails in anaconda with following error: Running anaconda 11.4.0.28, the Fedora system installer - please wait ... /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: /lib64/libc.so.6: cannot read file data: Input/output error install exited abnormally [1/1] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 alpha and anaconda 11.4.0.28 How reproducible: It happens every time on this computer but is system dependent. The same DVD behaves differently in another system (with a different version of Pioneer DVD drive). Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert x86_64 F9 alpha DVD in Pioneer DVR109 drive and boot 2. select install or upgrade exisiting linux (in graphical mode) Actual results: anaconda crashes -- see description of problem Expected results: The linux installation should proceed correctly. Additional info: This computer system has had a history of problems starting with FC6 and associated with the DVD drive (a Pioneer DVR109). FC5 installed fine. FC6 would install but it seemed to think the DVD drive was a hard disk. FC7 and F8 would not install. I have had to use a network install to get F8 onto it. The problems seem to be getting worse with each release! I am alpha testing F9 to try and get this problem fixed. Compare also with bug 435647.
Did you verify the media using mediacheck?
(In reply to comment #1) > Did you verify the media using mediacheck? Unlike most Fedora CD/DVDs which offer the user a graphical interface (after the driver installs) to check the media, or skip the test, this one does not. I have tried a boot with linux mediacheck and it reported no problems with the media (that I could see). This comment is made based on observations on a different system to the one this bug was reported for as that system is currently unavailable. I am sceptical that the problem is with corrupted media as exactly the same media in different systems behaves differently (i.e. this particular error does not occur with another system). My presumption (possibly wrong) is that the error lies in how the DVD is being read rather than what is on the DVD. I would run a checksum on the iso image but don't see any available at the download site.
The SHA1SUMS are available in the mirror iso directories. See: http://mirror.lib.ucdavis.edu/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/iso/SHA1SUM Or, You can verify the iso image easily using bittorrent. Place the image in a known directory, then go to torrent.fedoraproject.org and start downloading the torrent for that image (it will check the file and tell you if it is not complete).
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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