Description of problem: I downloaded the DVD iso for RHEL4.6 from rhn. I checked the MD5sum and it was all good. I wrote the file to a DVD. I ran the Disk check process and it came back with PASS. but it fails to complete the install using text and GUI Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 4.6 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download DVD iso 4.6 x86_64 ES (md5sum 02c05d09ad82dd6ceef03e115bf99b8b) 2. Write to DVD, boot and confirm that DVD is good using media check. 3. Do a text based install with the following choices - select OK - leave default english click OK - Leave Default US English click OK - Select Re-Install rather than upgrade - Autopartition - Remove all partitions but only select first disk. Are you sure Yes. - Leave default partition - DEfault boot loader - No special options - No Grub password - Default bootloader configuration - boot loader in MBR - Default (DHCP) for eth0 - host name via DHCP - No firewall - SELinux disabled - No additional language 4 Do a GUI based install with the following choices - Click next - leave default english click next - Leave Default US English click next - Select Re-Install rather than upgrade Actual results: In both situations I get somthing like the following in fourth virtual console ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x28 data 8192 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.01 port is slow to respond please be patient (Status 0xd0) ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) Doing a text based re-install I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda". line 1186, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.81//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 481 in run exec s File "<string>", line 1, in ? ImportError: cannot import name TimezoneWindow Doing a Graphical install I get An error occurred when attempting to load an installer interface component. clasName = PartitionMethodWindow Expected results: Install to complete with no errors Additional info: HP xw6600 workstation Dual Quad core with 8 GB RAM SATA disk drives
I assigned this to kernel on the basis of the error messages reported on tty4: ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x28 data 8192 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.01 port is slow to respond please be patient (Status 0xd0) ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) Those kinds of messages could very easily be the result of the random sorts of errors like the reporter is getting. Are these warnings instead of errors? Reporter: could you attach /tmp/syslog and /tmp/anaconda.log to this bug report?
in short no I install fails before it connects to our network, no command works except for inbuild bash commands. I can read the file but I cannot write it anywhere as mount does not work nor does any network based commands. Is there anything in particular you are looking for?
/tmp/syslog would say whether there are further kernel read errors.