From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: install with lowres switch, gets past the query of the kind of install I'd like, then crashes How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start 'er up with "lowres" at boot prompt 2.go through the motions 3.watch the fireworks Actual Results: Error dialog box with option to save to floppy. Expected Results: smooth install Additional info: THIS IS THE ERROR MESSAGE I WAS ABLE TO CAPTURE ON FLOPPY: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 391, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 879, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 481, in nextClicked next = self.currentScreen.getNext () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/examine_gui.py", line 19, in getNext self.todo.upgradeMountFilesystems (self.root) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1187, in upgradeMountFilesystems allowDirty = 0) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py", line 88, in mountRootPartition fstab.readFstab(instPath + '/etc/fstab', theFstab) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 1196, in readFstab fields[2], raidByDev[int(fields[0][7:])]) KeyError: 0 Local variables in innermost frame: loopIndex: {} fstab: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8481eb0> labelsByMount: {} line: /dev/md0 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 path: /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab device: hda1 raidByDev: {} fsystem: ext2 drives: ['hda'] lines: ['/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1\012', '/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2\012', '/dev/md0 /home ext2 defaults 1 2\012', '/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0\012', '/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0\012', '/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner 0 0\012', 'none /proc proc defaults 0 0\012', 'none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0\012'] labels: {} fields: ['/dev/md0', '/home', 'ext2', 'defaults', '1', '2'] f: <open file '/mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab', mode 'r' at 84acad0> raidList: [] ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' 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Can you attach your /etc/fstab file?
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/md0 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 The above /etc/fstab file is from my current RH6.1 installation. I should say, to get my machine to boot to the point where the upgrade failed, I had to disconnect the two drives that make up the /dev/md0. These drives are two 20GB Quantum Fireball Plus LMs connected to a Highpoint366 ATA/66 controller that RH7.1 seems to have trouble probing. (SEE BUG 45154)
Tried install again and used the following kernel directive after reattaching the drives to the secondary controller: ide2=0xcc00,0xd002,18 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02,18 and it worked. Not sure why this would make a difference, but it did. I got these numbers from the Gentus Linux "dmesg" boot log. Total time of upgrade took about 10 hours. It seemed to hang for extended periods at various times. Not impressed with RedHat 7.1's stability. At boot time, it will randomly hang upon starting various services like sendmail or apache. I often have to start these services manually as starting these things at boot time fail. Often have to boot several times to acheive a successful boot. Gentus Linux was rock stable on this Abit BP6. RedHat Linux 7.1 doesn't seem stable at all. It is frighteningly unpredictable on this machine. I'm sorry now that I upgraded.
kernel bug.
Do you have IDE disks connected to the HPT controller on the BP6? Could you try booting with either "ide=nodma" or "noapic" on the lilo kernel commandline ?
My earlier doubts about RedHat 7.1's stability may have been misplaced. RH7.1 DOES seem stable. I noticed that if I booted the machine cold, (8 or 9 hours since running it last) that it booted normally, even swiftly. But rebooting hot yielded unpredictable results. I suspected a heat problem. I cleaned the case's inlet air filter, cleaned all fan grills (there are two130mm fans and one 92mm fan just in the enclosure in addition to the four fans on the processors, and the fan in the power supply.) Cleaned the BX chip's heat sink. Removed the processors and heat sinks to look for accumulations of dust. Sure enough, there was significant dust on the heat sinks. Vacuumed them off and ran the machine. Booted fine, rebooted hot, booted fine. RedHat 7.1 seems every bit as stable as Gentus Linux. I apologize for even thinking there was a stability problem with RH7.1. As a further precaution, I redirected air-conditioned air from other areas to the host's area. There are two drives connected to the HPT366: a pair of Quantum Fireball Plus LM's of 20GB size, arranged in a RAID0 array and mounted at /home. No need to try the ide=nodma or noapic stuff. All seems well. I suspect the problems with Anaconda were probably also due to the heat problem. One question remains: Why would heat suddenly be an issue with RH7.1? Is the 2.4 kernel more sensitive to timing issues than 2.2? I'll keep looking at this machine over the next few weeks and I'll let you know how things go.
"Is the 2.4 kernel more sensitive to timing issues than 2.2?" For one, 2.4 using DMA on IDE disks, which means the chipset is getting used harder (the speed is much higher, so the chipset has to do more work).... Several other areas have performance-improvements, which therefore mean the hardware is loaded higher.
It appears I was premature in saying the problem was ONLY heat related. It does have some relationship to heat, but heat is only an aggravating factor. There seem to be other stability problems. Booting cold, (Really cold, computer in A/C'd room overnight, chipset, and CPU's cool to the touch.) will hang the system on the geometry query of the boot process. Repeated booting can get it past this point although not predictably. Rebooting hot can cause the boot process to hang as above but will also hang on starting sendmail. Once it is up and running it usually works OK, but I have had to reboot to shake off some flakiness.