From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: The graphical installation process fails, claiming that glibc is corrupt on the distribution cd. The text mode install works but the result is a corrupt install with strange problems such as gawk sometimes failing etc. This only occurs if ext3 is chosen for the filesystem. ext2 creates no problems and it is possible to convert to ext3 later on without any further problems. If the RAID controller is deactivated then there is no problem at all even with ext3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Dell Poweredge 2550, PERC 3/Di with BIOS V2.5-0 Build 2991, RedHat 7.2 2.Install. The nice graphic install fail when installing, text mode work but produces a corrupted install. 3. Actual Results: The installed version of RH 7.2 was not usable. Expected Results: A nice install Additional info: Installing using ext2 filesystems and not ext3 work. The ext2 filesystems can be converted to ext3 without any problems after installing. This makes it seem likely that there is some unhappy interaction between the aacraid module and ext3 during installation.
Brent could you try and reproduce this please.
I tried installing several times with both RedHat CDs bought in the store and with CDs burned from ISO files from the net and got exactly the same result every time. Eventually I installed without aacraid enabled but with software RAID and ext3, that works very well. Software RAID seems to be faster than the aacraid controller anyway on this hardware. The server is in production now and it is not easily possible to test anaconda any more.
Sounds like a kernel issue - is this a known problem guys?
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/