Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K (aka SR5K in US) with 128Mb RAM. This has a neomagic chipset. Attempted to upgrade RH 7.0+some updates+Ximian 1.4. Selected the default (which is graphical) mode. X flicked up for a moment and vanished again. On the console was (some formatting errors, but the numbers are correct): Probing for video card: NeoMagic 256 (laptop/notebook) Probing for monitor type: Unable to probe Probing for mouse type: generic - 3 button mouse (USB) Waiting for X-server to start...log located in /tmp/X.log .. X server started successfully. Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/bin/anaconda line 421 from splashscreen import splashScreenShow File splashscreen.py line 20 from gtk import * File gtk.py line 29 _gtk.gtk_init() Runtime error: cannot open display Install exited abnormally Attempted to get to the error log on the other virtual consoles, but sh appeared to have died so couldn't :(
This seems repeatable at will. Just got exactly the same results twice more. I haven't managed to get at the X log because I keep trying to get at it just after it's given up and died, but if you need it, I can try to be faster with my fingers.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45544 ***