Description of problem: Installing 20090225 rawhide x86_64 as xen guest. PXE/kickstart install. Install gets to: moving (1) to step autopartitionexecute and hangs. top shows 2 anaconda processes using cpu (~70% and ~15% each). VNC display is all black. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 11.5.0.23 How reproducible: 2 for 2 now
Is it genuinely hung, or is it just very, very slow? How long are you waiting before deciding it's hung up? The new pyparted is fairly slow and could be what you are seeing. This is the right spot, at least.
I gave up after an hour...
That definitely doesn't sound like pyparted slowness, then. Is the machine locked up? Can you switch to tty3 and tty4 and see if there's anything going on? I'm especially interested if there are any kernel error messages displayed.
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Machine appears to be running fine. No particular error messages. Anaconda is just spinning.
Today I get a traceback: File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 27 in <module> from cachedlist import CachedList Not sure if this is a pyparted issue, or anaconda not providing cachedlist...
I got the same issue as mentioned in comment #10 while trying to install x86_64 rawhide kvm guest.
(In reply to comment #10) > Today I get a traceback: > > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 27 in <module> > from cachedlist import CachedList > > Not sure if this is a pyparted issue, or anaconda not providing cachedlist... This is pyparted and will be fixed in pyparted-2.0.3-1.fc11.
Back to spinning again today. How else to debug this?
Looks like on i386 it generally stops a step earlier: no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp strace shows anaconda spinning on stdin: ppoll([{fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|0x400}], 1, {#, #}, ~[HUP INT TERM RTMIN], 8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) recvfrom(0, 0xbf8ec2cc, 8988, 64, 0xbf8ec150, 0xbf8ec15c) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) ls -l /proc/1165/fd lrwx------- 1 root root 64 Mar 3 09:36 0 -> socket:[5896]
This could be xen- or pxe- specific, since with kvm I'm able to reach an attempt to fetch repodata, where I'm getting bitten by #487925.
Appears to be fixed in today's rawhide.