Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53939
Installer Crashes when trie to install default Workstation or default Server
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:18 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install From CD. Select Default Installation For Server Or Workstation 2. 3. Additional info: 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 1965, in doInstall self.writeConfiguration () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1659, in writeConfiguration self.writeRootPassword () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 904, in writeRootPassword self.setPassword("root", pure) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1481, in setPassword stdout = '/dev/null', stderr = None) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 48, in execWithRedirect raise RuntimeError, command + " can not be run" RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/usermod can not be run Local variables in innermost frame: argv: ['/usr/sbin/usermod', '-p', '$1 $8g4BTsXd$IXkRyqU6FvzMa2seHo0fU0', 'root'] root: /mnt/sysimage stdin: 0 newPgrp: 0 stdout: 25 stderr: 26 command: /usr/sbin/usermod searchPath: 0 ignoreTermSigs: 0 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'800x600' p4 sS'progressWindow' p5 (igui ProgressWindow (dp6 S'total' p7 I493 sS'window' p8 (igtk GtkWindow (dp9 S'_o' p10 <failed>
GFX: Diamond Riva TNT2 Sound: Onboard Crystal Sound Chip (SB16) HDD: 13 GB IDE CD: Creative DVD Dxr2 Network: 3Com 905
Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'. Does that help?
When I boot the computer after Installation the Lilo is not installed and the Hardisc says that no OS is available.
No, I meant try booting the installer with 'linux ide=nodma'. Then do the install and see if things work after that. If the installer happens to crash the same way, press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any error messages related to the cdrom.
I Booted Up CD1 and entered "linux ide=nodema" The installation went as far as before. The same Error. used <CTRL>+<ALT+DEL> and reboot the computer. With CD2 in the drive Booted up and Bootup Failed and no Os available. Do you think it could be something wrong with my CD2??
It is possible that something is wrong with your cd #2. When the installer crashes, press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any error messages related to the cdrom. If there's something wrong with the cd itself, you will most likely see some read or seek errors on VC4. Pressing <Ctrl><Alt><F4> brings up VC4, so if the error messages are there, you'll see them.
All I could find where this <4> Unable to identify CD-Rom (could be when I change from CD1-CD2 Like 15 rows or more <7> ClockTimer configuration lost probably a VIA686a motherboard (I Use a Intel 440ZX chipset)
Yes, it could be a bad cd #2. Where did you get it from?
I got the CD from Sunet.se but I used "GetRight" application to download it with so that could have coused the problem with the ISO. I downloaded it in a Multisession download. I will Start downloading it right from the Redhat FTP and try install it again tomorrow.
I still have the same problem after downloading the CD from Redhats ftp server
Can you attach the md5sums of your ISO's?
How do I get that?
I installed RedHat 6.1 Last night so there shouldn't be any wrong with my hardware.
You can check the md5sum of the ISOs in two different ways. If you have the ISOs on a Linux machine, you can run the 'md5sum' program on the file. For example, 'md5sum seawolf-i386-disc1.iso'. After a long time calculating, the answer will be displayed. If you have the ISOs on a Windows box, you can download MD5Sumer from http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10096-100-5902737.html and run it to check the md5sum. Once you have the numbers, we can compare the numbers you got with the md5sum values from the ISO's on the FTP site. If the don't match exactly, then the ISOs got corrupted during download.
ae0ab1f09fe327a28b4d978ca94771df *seawolf-i386-disc1.iso f27b912299572a542cd663b712444445 *seawolf-i386-disc2.iso Used MD5Sums on a Windows based machine
Ok, here's the contents of the MD5SUM file from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/iso/i386/MD5SUM : 596b1575773e88e066326f6741312a6f seawolf-i386-disc1.iso f27b912299572a542cd663b712444445 seawolf-i386-disc2.iso As you can see, the numbers for disc1 are different from the numbers that you got. So the corruption was with disc1 instead of disc2 after all. Disc2 is fine. What you should do is redownload the disc1 ISO and then verify the md5sum of it before you burn a cd. Give that a try, and if that doesn't fix the problem, please reopen this bug report.