From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-21 i686) Description of problem: All attempts of all possible installation and upgrade methods have failed. There are no I/O errors reported. The install.log.syslog is always empty. Sometimes a "signal 11" is reported. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. choose any installation/upgrade path 2. attempt to upgrade from RH 5.2 to RH 7.2 or install RH 7.2 3. Actual Results: "Abnormal termination" is reported. The install.log ends with no notification of error. The alternate screens have no notification of I/O error. MD5 checksum and/or bad file descriptor errors are reported in install.log (never on the The last item) referring to various files, sometimes the same, more often not. The install.log.syslog is always empty. Sometimes a "signal 11" is reported. I was finally able to get a clean installation after putting a new HD on the secondary IDE controller. All attempts to install or upgrade to the disk drives that ran RH 5.2 since 1998 failed. These drives are Maxtor 8GB, model number 90845D4. The master drive has 512K cache and the slave drive has 256K cache. Expected Results: clean/smooth installation or upgrade Additional info: See ticket 199932 for the gory details. I specified a high severity since my file systems were converted to EXT3 (as recommended by the installation process) before the upgrade failure which prevented me from "upgrading" back to 5.2. I was without access to both linux and windows on this machine until I purchased and installed the new disk. The EXT2->EXT3 conversion should only be done after all of the installation and post installation processing is done.
Signal 11s are usually a sign of hardware issues and the 2.4 kernel pushes the hardware much harder than earlier kernels. Could you try running memtest86 on your machine and see if that helps? Also, what sort of hardware is this on?
Signal 11 happens about 1 in every 10 attempts to upgrade/install. I will run memtest86 if you tell me where it is and how to use it. I can't find it on any of the RH cdroms or the installed system and there is no man page for it. The details of the hardware and other information that might be of use to you is filed under support ticket 199932. You will find there that replacing all of the system memory with PC-133 didn't change the installation behavior. The work around was to use a 80GB disk as the installation disk instead of the 8GB maxtor drives that supported RH 5.2.
You can find memtest86 http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/. As to the hardware configuration, since I'm in development and not in support, I do not have access to the support database, thus it would be helpful if you could add the hardware information to this bug report.
Closing due to inactivity, please reopen if you contine to have problems.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.