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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: I hit <enter> at the boot: prompt after booting from the CD, and after the installer finds my hardware, it shows a blue screen for a few seconds then that goes away, and it says the installer exited abnormally with signal 7. I also tried lowres mode, but that gave the same result. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start install program in graphical mode 2. 3. Actual Results: Installer exited and said I could now safely restart my computer. Expected Results: Installer should have asked desired boot mode (i.e. CD- ROM). Additional info: I'm running the following: Abit KT7-RAID mobo (with Promise ATA-100 controller), Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 Ultra, SB Live X-Gamer, 3Com 10/100 card, HP CDWriter 9300, Toshiba DVD-ROM, ATAPI Zip drive
When the install crashes, can you press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any error messages there?
The signal 7 has now changed to a signal 11. I checked where you said to look, and the only thing that looked like an error was a line that read: Unable to identify CD-ROM format Also, there were some devices sharing IRQs, but that shouldn't be a problem, right?
Can you try booting with 'linux ide=nodma' and see if that helps?
I had already tried it, but I just got a different error at about the same place. I'll try it again though and record the error.
Ok.
I tried running linux ide=nodma, and again anaconda exited abnormally, but without a Signal 11. Under <ctrl><alt>F4, nothing looked different than before. Under <ctrl><alt>F3, the last line was "looking for USB mouse" but that could be the same as before. Also, under F4, the last few lines were: raid0 personality registered as nr2 raid1 personality registered as nr3 raid5: measuring checksumming speed ...(here it output some test results) raid5:using function: p5_mmx (3284.800 MB/sec) raid5 personality registered as nr4 I don't know if that last part means anything, but it was the last few lines under F4.
It's hard to say what the problem is. It's not getting far enough into the installer for me to do any meaningful debugging. Can you look on VC1 and see if you see a line that says "Running anaconda"? If you don't see that, then anaconda hasn't even started, which means there either a kernel problem or there's something wrong with the hardware.
It definitely did say "Starting anaconda"
Were there any more messages at all on <Alt+F1> ?
Actually, the error message changed again. The entire output after "running anaconda" under <ctrl><alt><F1> is as follows. Running anaconda -- please wait exec: Exec format error install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnt/source unmount failed () /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system
I see this same error on a dual-processor 1GHz Pentium III... Running on an ABIT VP6, latest BIOS. It happens on both fail-safe and optimized settings. I've tried everything I can think of to solve this, including disabling the USB bus, turning off my Adaptec card, etc. I see exactly the same errors as the previous reporting person. I have an Adaptec SCSI controller with a single CD-RW attached. I can give more thorough specs if you want.
try booting with "ide=nodma"
Just like before, that didn't work, but now I got a Signal 11 again. By the way, I also tried Expert mode, and I got through a few screens, but anaconda exited at the exact same point.
this is a data corruption error and will have to be handled kernel level.
So, what do I do about that?
This is almost certainly a hardware issue. I assume none of these systems are overclocked ?
Nothing's overclocked at all. I've used the video card control panel to boost the speed on that, but that should only affect the Windows driver, right?
Can you update me on this? It's been almost 2 months, and I recently tried it again, getting the same errors. I'd like to know if there's been any progress. Thanks.
Somehow your cdrom drive has problems reading the cd. Would it be possible to do either a network install or an install from harddisk (where you copy the cd's (as iso files) to harddisk first) ?
Closing: No reply in > 18 months.