Bug 88544 – installer hangs when choosing password

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Bug 88544 - installer hangs when choosing password

Summary:	installer hangs when choosing password

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 75008

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2003-04-10 15:44 EDT by Rich Taylor
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:52 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-02-21 13:52:36 EST
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Description Rich Taylor 2003-04-10 15:44:08 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 
1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
The report on the screen says:
File "/usr/bin/anaconda". line 694, in?
int.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line
446, in run dispatch.gotoNextL()

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the Install - either graphical or text - makes no difference
2. Occurs at various locations - when loading install, choosing boot manager or 
on 2nd CD.
3. 
    

Actual Results:  System said "It's safe to reboot your system".

Expected Results:  Install the software without incident.

Additional info:

System Specs: AMD Duron 850, 128MB DDR210 RAM, WD 10GB HDD, Sony 52x CDROM, TNT 
Riva Video, 3Com 590 TX NIC, Via chipset on board.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-04-11 11:52:43 EDT

Have you tested all your installation media?

Comment 2 Rich Taylor 2003-04-11 12:05:34 EDT

Unfortunately, I don't know how.  I purchased the software so assume the disks 
are good but this is no real guarantee. I really know nothing about Linux.  I 
do know that I have installed Mandrake on this system without incident.

Comment 3 Rich Taylor 2003-04-11 13:48:02 EDT

Here is some more info:

I removed hardware (video and nic) and am now able to proceed in the install.  
I get into the install and get this error:
/mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/linuxdoc.tools-0.9.20.3.i386.rpm cannot be opened.  This 
is due to a bad image, disc media etc.

I downloaded the iso and made my own CD.  Result is the same.  I burnt a new cd 
using the cd from Red Hat as the source and the result is the same.

If I attempt to restart the installation, I get an error stating <something> 
CPIO - Bad Magic and then the setup stops.  I can't get the entire message 
because it goes by too fast.  

If I shut off the machine for a while (15 minutes) I can then go back into the 
setup just fine but with the above file copy error.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2003-05-13 15:05:36 EDT

You may want to see if you can swap in a different CD drive in the system. CDs
can be unreliable (I've seen thousands of examples of the problem you are seeing
and its always either bad media or a bad drive).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 13:52:36 EST

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.

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