From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: After I Manually Partition my disk with disk druid, then press the next button, I get an "unhandled exception error. I have atteched the resulting error information. I removed my laptop from the docking station, and get the same error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select Laptop Installation 2. Partition my system as follows: /boot=47 MB(ext3), / = 18646 MB(ext3), 384 MB Swap. 3. Press Next Actual Results: Unusual exception error Expected Results: I would say that it should have started a Laptop install, or allowed me to verify the packages. Additional info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 633, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 353, in run self.icw.run (self.runres, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 814, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2676, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 130, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 420, in nextClicked self.setScreen () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 558, in setScreen new_screen = apply(self.currentWindow.getScreen, args) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/bootloader_gui.py", line 363, in getScreen
Created attachment 62984 [details] This is the file that was created as a result of save to floppy on the error.
Please check your CDs following these instructions: http://people.redhat.com/~msf/mediacheck.html
I tried that before I opened this issue ;). I have installed from the same media on 2 other systems (both desktops, 1 compaq, 1 custom) with no problems. I also re-downloaded the iso's again, and tried installed from cd's made with the re-dl'ed image, and same thing. Just an FYI, Mandrake 8.2 installs on my laptop with no problem whatsoever.
Have you actually checked the CDs with *THIS* cd drive. Unfortunately many CD drives (especially on laptops) seem to be very sensitive to CD-R media and these messages imply read errors from the drive that we can't do much about. <4>hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hdb: command error: error=0x54 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1113768 Also, does booting with 'ide=nodma' help any?
I did try the mediacheck on this machine. I was able to install it 1 time out of about 15 attempts. When I *finally* got it to install, I was not satisfied, and tried about 5 more times, and could not get it to install. It kept stopping at various points. I had problems with missing packages, the same unusual exception error, etc. This final straw was when I got it to the point where it was asking for the second cd, and when I inserted the second cd, it told me that it was not the second cd, and to please re-insert the second cd. I gave up at that point. And just to be clear, I used the same set of discs that I had re-downloaded AGAIN to install onto another machine, and it worked fine. I did also test Mandrake 8.2 on this laptop, and it worked. I then tried Suse 8.0, and it worked fine also, and I stuck with that. I have it working very nicely now, and do not want to redo it again. I would have preferred redhat, but as I cannot get it to install... :( Thanks for your efforts in this matter. I'm not sure if I should close this issue or not. I'll leave that up to you.
This really either sounds like a hardware problem or an incompatibility with the kernel. If you provide more information on the chipset in the laptop, Arjan might have some other idea.
This describes my problem exactly. I have experienced all these symptoms. Are you aware that there're several other similar bug reps? Unfortunately, I cannot get a dump to floppy (this is a fresh machine). It shouldn't matter much as the crashes vary. The most common is the "unhandled exception" (about 4 out of 20 times) Here is a description of my hardware: CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.6GHz MOBO: Asus A7S333 motherboard, sis745 chipset RAM: 512M DDR HD: IBM 40G 7200 RPM model 07N8450 CDRW: Optirite 32x12x40x Floppy: Sony internal 3.5" 1.44M Video Card: NVidia TNT2 M64 AGP 32M Monitor: CTX VL510 Modem: Blitzz I303 NIC: RealTech 10/100 Here's the first "unhandled exception", copied by hand, expect typos: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 633, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 353, in run self.icw.run (self.runres, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 814, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2676, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 529, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 135, in render Callback self.intf.icw.nextClicked File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 417, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 144, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 209, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 375, in turnOnFilesystems thefsset.checkBadblocks(instPath) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1007, in checkBadblocks self.badblocksEntry(entry, chroot) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 984, in badblocksEntry entry.fsystem.badblocksDevice(entry, self.progressWindow, chroot) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 210, in badblocksDevice l = string.split(num, '/') TypeError: argument1: expected read-only character buffer, int found I've danced around w/"support", to summarize: 1)all media fine; installed on 2 other boxes; linux mediacheck okay on other boxes. On Athlon, Disk3 failed 2 out of 2 times - but note that no install (out of >20) has ever gotten past disk 2. 2)I swapped in a ASUS 52x CDROM. Succeeded once out of 4 tries. 3)I have succeded once out of 15+ tries on the optirite; had to see if I could repeat; couldn't. 4)Tried "linux noathlon". Crashed. 5)Tried "linux text mem=exactmap mem=640K@0 mem=479M@1M apm=off ide=nodm"; Crashed after 4.5 hours(!) of disk formatting. Claimed my drive was full! After the format! 6)Note that video quality is horrible. Granted the CTX is way overpowered by the NVidia, but on one of the successes I managed to get X4 configured fine. Hardware probes are always correct (when the install gets that far) I will be happy to provide further details, including CMOS. I just installed 6.2 successfully. I'll play w/that, then try an upgrade (I know, LOL)
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