From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Trying to install RH in text mode. 2. Selected the following packages to be installed: Printing Support Classic X Windows System X Window System KDE Sound/Multimedia Support network Support Router/Firewall DNS Server Utilities 3. Formatted the filesystem automatically 4. Message on screen said "Transferring install image to hard disk" 5. Solid disk activity for about 2 minutes, then I recived and error message "Exception Occurred" Exception Occurred: An unhandled exception has occured. This is most likely a bug. Please copy the full text of this exception or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda:, line 620, in ? intf.run(id,dispatch,configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 408, in run dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 143, in gotoNext() self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 489, in doInstall l.sort(sortPackages) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 294, in sortPackages elif (string.lower(first[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME]) TypeError: read-only character buffer, None Additional info:
This looks like the error I get also. Installing 7.2 on a 486DX4-100 with 64M ram, 6G HD, Trident video. Install process goes to varying points, then fails with the bug window. I will attach my dump file.
Created attachment 40671 [details] Dump file from 486-100 install failure
Could you please save the errors to floppy and attach all the error output?
mlay, the following section of your traceback makes me think you have either a bad cd or a bad cdrom drive. Did you check the md5sum of the ISO? <4>hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <4>hdb: ATAPI reset complete <4>hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } <4>hdb: ATAPI reset complete <4>hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } <4>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 782820 <4>hdb: status timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } <4>hdb: drive not ready for command <4>hdb: ATAPI reset complete <4>hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <4>hdb: ATAPI reset complete <4>hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } <4>hdb: ATAPI reset complete <4>spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
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