From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I'm trying to install RedHat 7.1 but the installation hangs after the post- installation procedure (the progress bar dialog shows, and then is closed again). Then the GUI exits if I move the mouse or click in the GUI, and then there is some text in the console: (First something about the successful xserver start) X server started successfully... "Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x14b776) Everything in the installation works fine until this problem. I tried with different package (rpm) selections (custom) and different X configurations which shows OK. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install redhat 7.1 from CD on the slave drive 2. Install redhat 7.1 from CD on the master drive (last 5 GB) CD installation of 6.0 works fine! 3. Trying to upgrade 6.0-->7.1. Installation fails when installing lilo with a message about "/dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk". Actual Results: Installation hangs with unexpected async reply. Expected Results: Successful installation. Additional info: I have two IBM disks. The first one is win98 and Win2k with it's bootloader and I'm trying to install on the second 20 GB disk (slave on IDE1) with disk-druid config: /win98 (hda) /win2k (hda) /boot (23mb, hdb) / (10000mb, hdb) /swap (400mb, hdb) I selected to install lilo on the first sector of boot partition and tried with no lilo at all... System: AMD athlon 1100mhz, 256mb ram A7V motherboard, ASUS 7700 Graphics
Detailed error message: ...X server started successfully Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x14b776) Gdk-Warning **: GdkWindow 0x2008d1 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-Warning **: GdkWindow 0x2008d0 unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-Error **: BadIDChoice serial 812671 error_code 14 request_code 145 minor_code 1 install exited abnormally
Text mode installation of 7.1 hangs too. There is no way to reach the console. I have to reboot.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37442 ***