Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7376
Installation hangs on IPX
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
The install (using tftp/nfs and the graphical installer), proceeded OK until starting to install packages. The first four packages installed without problems, but after the fifth (ldconfig) the installation hung. I could switch to a virtual console, so the machine was not dead. I then tried to use the text installer booting from a cdrom. The same result. The only clue I have is that it might be that the kernel problem described by Michael Faurot in the thread "Postgres & Sparc2/IPX machines" on the redhat-sparc list could have something to do with this. I do not know if the kernel patch he posted is included in the kernel distributed with 6.1.
Installation succeeded with no known problems on a SPARCstation LX using floppy-boot/nfs, whereas floppy-boot/ftp fails.
I see identical problems with IPX installation, and confirm the behavior mentioned in bug #7243; that is, the very long pause between the installation of each package. Left the install running for 24 hours, only 72 packages were installed (72 packages x approx 20 min/package = 24 hours, oddly enough). Stopped and restarted install a number of times, same result. Watched the network traffic with a sniffer, when ftp session is actually begun session proceeds very quickly; there is just a tremendous lag between initiation of each successive ftp transfer.
This is happening to me too. SPARC 2, boot net, FTP install. It gets as far as installing ldconfig, then appears to hang. I left it running overnight, it was still in the same point next morning. If it's going slowly, it's going *very* slowly indeed!
CD booted IPX hangs after ldconfig. Left overnight as jah@alien.bt.co.uk above did. Genuine Sun CDROM, 32MB RAM, no kbd or mouse, serial terminal as console Machine installs and runs Solaris 7.
Happens to me on an IPX doing a CDROM install. I've tried the Gnome & KDE workstation install, both hung in the same spot. The server install works correctly. Created images of both RPM and Non RPM CDROM, and it happens on both.
I've an IPX 4/50 with 64M Redhat6.1 installer freezes after ldconfig package, when using gnome standard install. No kernel warnings on the other ttys, either. Minimum custom install works fine, though. Fixme.
I have exactly the same problem with my SS2, on my IPX (very light install) all was OK (install by ftp from a PC linux box) but on the SS2 (64Mo of ram), the installer hangs after during the installation of the ldconfig rpm.
Yet another 'Me Too'. At first I suspected that my firewall was doing strange stuff to passive FTP connections, but on other desktops, it works fine. My workaround was to use an HTTP install instead. It worked like a dream. (It's an IPX, 32MB RAM, dodgy 200MB disk, 2 hops away from the install server.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7494 ***