Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 50239
Installer crash as soon as install starts
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0; DigExt; AIRF; AT&T CSM 6) Description of problem: Once I begin the step to actually install this bug pops up, and gave me the option to save to disk which I did... I attached the text in the error How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: ? Don't know... just followed install directions.. Additional info: CPU: 400mhz celeron 160mb ram --actual error message (as saved to disk from install program)-- Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 19, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1765, in doInstall self.fstab.turnOnSwap(self.instPath) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 505, in turnOnSwap isys.ddfile(file, size, (self.progressWindow, File "/mnt/redhat/test/qa0408.4/i386/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/isys .py", line 90, in ddfile fd = os.open(file, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/loophost/rh-swap.img' Local variables in innermost frame: buf:
Created attachment 25288 [details] the error message
Can you try again, and when the install crashes, press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any error messages about reading the cd's. If you don't see anything interesting there, try the install again, but this time type 'linux ide=nodma' at the bootup screen. Do either of those two ideas help?
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