Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8180
hangs when querying packages via ftp
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
In either upgrade or install mode. System is DEC Multia 166 w/64 MB Ram. Fujitsu 640Mb SCSI Hdd / IBM 2.1 SCSI HDD. Connects to ftp server, sets partitions and mount points. When gets to Querying packages to choose to install (or upgrade depending on mode)system hangs
I'm seeing something similar to this. I can boot, start a text mode install, and do all the steps up to (including) entering a root password before the system hangs. This is on a Multia, 166MHz w/ 64MB RAM and an IBM 2.0GB IDE hard drive, with the PCI/SCSI option installed (though I have no SCSI devices connected presently.) I get the same results with an NFS, FTP or hard drive install. I also get the same results with 6.1 or 6.2.
On our multia here also hangs when querying packages via ftp.
Doing a 6.1 FTP install on a miata, the reading package information takes up to 1/2 hour. However using 6.2 the list comes up almost instantaneously.
using RHL6.1, the multia seemed to hang in the reading package info stage. Using RHL6.2, the reading package info stage took about 1 minute. Out multia has 48M of ram and a 500 meg drive, but I can't get it reproduce this problem.
I've seen the same problem on my multia, or at least similar. The install would hang on a ftp install, after it asked me for the hostname to use (using dhcp to setup the network, no reverse dns set) Information on my box: Multia 166 MHz ev4 32 MB RAM 300 MB internal SCSI HD A workaround seems to be creating the filesystem(s) by hand on the console (mknod /tmp/sda1 ; mkfs.ext2 /tmp/sda1 ; rm /tmp/sda1). I told it NOT to format the filesystem. After that, the install worked like expected.
*** Bug 11076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***