From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: I did a ftp laptop install, reformatting my / and swap partitions. I chose to test for bad blocks on my / partition. After it finished testing for bad blocks (no errors) and formatting (no errors), an error in white on black went across the package install screen: "/usr/bin/python1.5: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libdl.so.2: cannot read file data: error 21" This did *not* abort the installer--it kept going. In the syslog terminal, the following errors were displayed: ... (more of the <6> errors all the way to the top of the screen) <6>01:01: rw=0, want=5360, limit=4608 <6>attempt to access beyond end of device <6>01:01: rw=0, want=5360, limit=4608 <4>Error -3 while decompressing! <4>c02b08d4(-999040208)->c3e43000(4096) possibly related, but I'm not sure, on the install log terminal: * swap attempt of 96M to 192M prior to this error, I was able to use ls, ps, etc at the bash prompt on tty2. After this, however, I get: # ls ls: permission denied # ps ps: permission denied any other command, no matter where I get it from, doesn't work, except the shell builtins (such as echo $PATH) I didn't think to try echo * As it installed, (which it seemed to do normally without any further error), I left to go to the grocery store. When I came back, the installer had crashed: "install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11...(unmounting, can reboot)" This was in the middle of some text ui screen, but I couldn't tell what (didn't think to page up before looking at the syslog screen). On the syslog screen, I saw more of the <6> and <4> error messages above, but with different numbers than before or even from one another. The shell no longer reacted to input, but that's probably because the machine shut down. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tell Jeremy Katz to borrow my laptop 2. Have him do an ftp laptop install Actual Results: It segfaulted. Expected Results: 1.) A happy installed system with skipjack beta 2 installed. 2.) An end to That Evil Monopoly. Of course, I'll settle for just #1. Additional info: This also occurred in skipjack beta #1, but it had looked like the bugs were fixed in CVS so I didn't report it. An ftp install of RHL7.2 from the same machine (mork.eos.ncsu.edu) onto this machine did not fail. I haven't (yet) tried to reproduce the bug with beta #2, but considering that the error doesn't depend on anything already on the machine (stuff gets formatted), and it's (probably) not the hardware, I think it's safe to assume it's 100% reproducable. I'm going to try again in a little bit, so if that's not the case, I'll let you know. I was able to successfully install beta #1 with an nfs gui install (again, from mork.eos.ncsu.edu). If you need any further information, please let me know. Unfortunately, the installer crashed w/o giving me the opportunity to save anything to disk, so that's not an option...
Oh yeah, another possibly relevant piece of information: I booted the installer via grub and dosutils/autoboot/{vmlinuz,initrd.img}. The grub stanza I used is: title Skipjack Install root (hd0,1) # or whatever /dev/hda2 is in grubspeak kernel /tmp/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda2 initrd /tmp/initrd.img
You didn't add the appropriate 'ramdisk_size=8192' option to the kernel line. This is required so the entire second stage can fit in a ramdisk.