Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 48821
7.1 crashes when upgrading from 6.0
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:34:40 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: When I run the 7.1 installer to upgrade from 6.0 on my system, it crashes, but gives me a different error each time. Sometimes I get a python error, other times it says "failed to dind /modules/modules-info", sometimes "exec: Input/output error", and so on. I can't get it to fail the same way twice in a row, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I run it in graphical or text mode - same results. The system runs 6.0 happily, so I don't think it's a hardware issue: I'm running a AMD K6-2 300mHz on a Tyan Trinity 100AT, with 32 mb ram. Any ideas? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the computer from the CD 2. 3. Actual Results: Varies from time to time. Sometimes you get as far as choosing where to install from (i.e. local CDROM), other times it crashes at the first blue screen. Expected Results: It should go right into the installer. Additional info:
boot with "linux ide=nodma" if that works, run: for I in /proc/ide/hd*; do echo $I; cat $I/model; done on your system and attach that info here.
No luck. Got the "failed to read /modules/modules-info" again.
Please try making a boot disk from boot.img and boot the installer from that.
I made the boot disk, but same problem running the installer - either it tells me "failed to find /modules/modules-info" or I get a python error ("could not find platorm independent libraries").
OK, I found the problem. I swapped out the CD-Rom drive (I tried changing everything else, why not), and presto! Install ran beautifully the first time. The drive that gave me the problems was an Acer 640A-172. Don't know why it was happy under 6.0 and unhappy under 7.1, but there it is.
Glad to hear that you found the problem. Thanks for your report.