From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.1b1; Mac_PowerPC) Description of problem: If the install of the i686 glibc (or other vital packages) fails for some reason anaconda ignores the problem and proceeds with the install, giving no feedback to the user that it is encountering problems. In my particular case, I am trying to install RedHat 7.x on Connectix's Virtual PC 4.x. Their appears to be a problem related to the Connectix i686 emulation, since the i383 glibc seems to run, but the i686 optimized one runs into serious problems, with ldconfig segfaulting (very bad!). However, it is far from obvious to a naive user that this is indeed the problem. Usenet newsgroups and Connectix support forums show people complaining that the RedHat installer couldn't write their boot sector -- this being the first indication of the problem (the dev package fails to install, so /dev/hda doesn't exist in the new filesystem). Although the "install.log" file reveals the extent of the problem (huge numbers packages which didn't install because their (or their dependencies) %pre scripts couldn't run, and huge numbers of packages whose %post or %trigger scripts didn't run), there is no indication that these package installs are failing. Perhaps some of the blame lies with rpm, rather than anaconda, but it certainly is not okay for users to be told that the install has completed successfully when the log shows numerous errors. (Of course, some of the blame must also surely rest with Connectix whose buggy emulation appears to be the root cause of the problem -- of course, they may say that since Windows runs fine, they don't care). Sadly, even once I had diagnosed the problem, there seemed to be no way for me to tell the installer that it should ignore the fact that the processor appears to be an i686 and that it should actually install the more generic i386 packages. (If there is a way to do this, let me know and I'll give the installer another shot). It would be cool if we could get this problem fixed for 7.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Virtual PC 4.x (either on Mac OS 9, Mac OS X) 2. Attempt to install RH 7.x 3. Watch for first report of errors and compare to /tmp/install.log Actual Results: Mondo badness, unbootable install. Expected Results: Happiness and joy. Additional info:
Connectix needs to fix their emulation or not report that they can handle instructions that they can't really handle.