From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: This has been an odd bug. The first time I attempted to install Redhat, the installer crashed about 1/2 way through, just after/during installing openjade. I naturally thought this was a fluke, so I tried again, and received the same error in the exact same place. Then I remembered that I was using a CD-R, so I thought the CD was the problem and burned another. This time, it got past the openjade spot, but hung just a few packets from completion (didn't catch the exact point). So, I figured that I also had a bad 2nd CD as well, and burned another of it. It crashed at the openjade point again. Next, I thought my download was to blame, so I downloaded both CDs again and burned yet another copy of each. The next time I tried, it crashed in the same spot as before, at the openjade point. At this point I logged into bugzilla and read through some people with similar problems. I also ran the checksum, which came out perfectly fine. I noticed one person said he burned a CD at a slower speed, and this solved the problem, so I tried that, too. However, I received the same error. This leads me to believe that this error is a bug, for 2 reasons: 1. Other people have had this same error at the same point. The odds of this happening by a faulty burn are quite high. 2. I used FOUR DIFFERENT CDs. The odds of the same error at the same point occuring due to a replicated erroneous burn are also extremely slim. Oh well, I hope you can help. I was going to be a former Windows user, but now I'm not so sure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Burn the installation disk 2. Run the installer Actual Results: I receive the same error Additional info: OK - here is the hardware config: * Pentium 4 2.0 GHz * 512 MB DDR RAM * Soundblaster Audigy Gamer * Visiontek XTASY 6964 Geforce 3 Ti500 * 3 hard drives - 80 GB Samsung (Windows disk), 15 GB Maxtor (also Windows disk), and 6 GB Quantum Bigfoot (would-be Linux disk) * Acer Benq 48x12x48 CD-R/RW * Note: while typing this up, I had an idea - I burned the disks without closing the sessions (old habit), and since the errors come just after the half-way point of the installation (or at the theoretical end of the first disk), perhaps this is the cause of the problem. I will respond saying whether this has an effect.
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Update - I tried to install Redhat with a finalized CD-R, but there was no difference: it crashed while installing openjade.
Did you happen to test the CDs using the builtin mediacheck? Try http://people.redhat.com/~msf/mediacheck.html
Yes, I did - both passed. However, I went back and selected as few packages to install as possible. After I tried this, Redhat did install. Since this was not near what I wanted, I went back through and selected some more packages (but not nearly as many as I had at first). Redhat again successfully installed, but I noticed something interesting: openjade is the first RPM to install off the second CD. I think that anaconda, for some reason, did not ask for the 2nd CD with the package configuration I had selected. That would somewhat explain the "SystemError: (16, 'Device or resource busy')" error: perhaps it was looking for a CD that was not in the drive. Once again, this seems to point towards a bug, though odd it is. Oh yeah - I originally selected all the packets to install except for "Dialup Support" and "All Packets." I believe the install size was about 2.1 GB.
Thanks for the additional information, I will assign this issue to an engineer.
There was a case where rereading from the CD didn't properly close the file descriptor on the CD making it impossible to eject. Fixed in our current internal codebase.