Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86168
Red Hat 8.0 Crashing during fresh install
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: I've attempted to install Red Hat 8.0 over 30 times so far and every time at some random point during either the partitioning or right after, the screen either freezes up or the install terminates giving the following error: (anaconda:85): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed I search through bugs on this site and found a similar error message but it was a separate issue regarding the use of firewire hardware and the hwbrowser, not during installation. I am not using any firewire hardware, I'm usig the following: Biostar M7VKQ motherboard with most recent award bios - onboard Trident CyberBlade video integrated - onboard AC'97 2.2 Audio CODEC Onboard - Athlon XP 1700 (1.47mhz) cpu - Maxtor 30 gig 7200 rpm hard drive - ps2 mouse - ps2 keyboard ----------------------- When trying to do a text install, I get an error message saying a file is missing and the following Traceback: File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 694, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFireData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 446 in run dispatch.gotoNext() I am totally lost. Is this a hardware issue? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Is reproducable every time I run the install program. Additional info:
When doing a text install I get much further into the installation, but get the following error: The file /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/glibc-common-2.2.9 3-5.i386.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a bad package or bad media. Press <return> to try again. I downloaded the 5 disc ISO off the red hat web site and burned them just yesterday onto cds so I don't see why it would be a bad file, etc. This is frustrating.
Did you use the built in mediatest to test the CDs? You only need the first 3 images to do an install.
I fixed the problem. I changed the frequency in the bios to 100 and it instantly fixed the problem. If anyone else has a similar problem, I suggest simply checking the frequency in the cmos settings.