Bug 50215 - Installer crashed when upgrading a RH6.2 box
Summary: Installer crashed when upgrading a RH6.2 box
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-28 13:48 UTC by Majid Tajamolian
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-28 16:00:49 UTC
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Description Majid Tajamolian 2001-07-28 13:48:25 UTC 
Description of Problem:
I upgrade a RH6.2 box to RH7.1
During upgrade process via text interface, the installer crashes when is going to upgrade/install "tcsh-6.10-5" package with a error message "install exited abnormally -- received signal 11"

How Reproducible:
Often, but not always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from RH7.1 CDROM
2. enter "text" in the boot command prompt
3. select "upgrade" from the installation menu
4. continue the general process to upgrade, and ... CRASH!

Actual Results:
The installer crashes with the "install exited abnormally -- received signal 11" message.

Expected Results:
Installation should finished normally!

Additional Information:
The computer is an AMD-Athlon 650 MHz with 512KB ext. cache
256MB RAM
Motherboard GIGA 7IXE with AMI BIOS ver 02/29/2000
Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-07-28 16:00:44 UTC 
Can you look on VC4 and see if there are any error messages?  The problem is,
though, depending on exactly where the upgrade crashed, your machine may be in
an unstable state, which may make reproducing the problem difficult.
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-08-10 15:07:35 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information.
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