Description of problem: There appear to be two problems, possibly related, with the Red Hat 8.0 installer. The first is a lockup during the media check option; after scanning the first disc the result screen fails to appear, the media is not ejectable, and the only way to proceed is to reboot the system. This happens during every media check on the affected system. The second is extremely slow installation or possibly an infinite loop (have not yet completed a successful 8.0 installation on the affected machine) in the GUI installer. Seemingly when disc 2 is inserted, installation of RPMs becomes many times slower than with disc 1. This is not isolated to one machine; has been seen on at least one other machine in our lab. Installations on the lab machine completed at an estimate of 2 hours per CD (6 hours total for the install) where the machine reported in this bug has not yet completed a successful install of disc 2. Currently working on the second such attempt. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0 How reproducible: Run media check on an affected machine. Proceed with installation on an affected machine. When disc 2 is requested installation of RPMs slows to a crawl. Affected hardware: Thinkpad 570 notebook computer, 366 MHz Mobile Pentium II, 192 MB RAM, 30 GB hard disk. Similar installation slowdowns have been seen on a generic 800 MHz Pentium III desktop. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Noticed on the recommendation of a co-worker that there are several messages on virtual terminal 3: * IOError 5 occurred copying nautilus-2.0.6-6.i386.rpm: Input/output error That's the RPM currently failing installation. Note however that the media has checked out on another machine, and that the last attempted install failed on a completely different RPM, though on the same CD.
Red Hat 7.3 installs fine on the same machine. I've heard from another co-worker that there may be bugs in the IDE driver bundled with 8.0 and that would seem to explain the problem.
It sounds like the media is unreadable in the affected system. I have had numerous reports where media works on some system/CDROM combinations and not others. If you purchased the product you should contact our customer support. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.