Bug 84947 – Installer crashes hours into the installation, at random points

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Bug 84947 - Installer crashes hours into the installation, at random points

Summary:	Installer crashes hours into the installation, at random points

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i586 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2003-02-24 03:17 EST by Gene Walli
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:51 EDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Last Closed:	2003-02-24 11:34:59 EST
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Dump from anaconda failure (85.10 KB, text/plain) 2003-02-24 03:19 EST, Gene Walli	no flags	Details
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Description Gene Walli 2003-02-24 03:17:42 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
Installer crashes hours into the installation, at random points.  MAY be a bad 
CDROM, also had several bad packages, that I had to exclude from the 
installation list to get to this point.  Happened several
times, but not always at the same module.  Latest time was on the 
w3c-libwww-devel-5.3.2-5 module..

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up Partitions using Disk Druid
2. Select Packages
3. Begin installation.
    

Actual Results:  85% into the installation, anaconda dumps.

Expected Results:  Installation completes!

Additional info:

Still no LINUX on my box.

Comment 1 Gene Walli 2003-02-24 03:19:59 EST

Created attachment 90305 [details]
Dump from anaconda failure

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-02-24 11:34:59 EST

You have a bad CD.

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