Bug 928838 - Installer screen goes black and doesn't come back
Summary: Installer screen goes black and doesn't come back
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 928287
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F19Alpha, F19AlphaBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-28 14:46 UTC by Stef Walter
Modified: 2013-03-29 12:48 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-03-29 12:48:17 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Stef Walter 2013-03-28 14:46:17 UTC
Using http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC2/Live/x86_64/Fedora-19-Alpha-TC2-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso

Installing in a virt-manager KVM VM with 2048M RAM and 10G disk.

During the install packages stage, the screen goes black. I imagine this is a screen saver. This is strange thing to happen during an install, and unsettling for users.

But more seriously, wiggling the mouse or pressing keys on the keyboard do not result in the screensaver going away. I can use Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a VT.

The host machine is F18.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2013-03-29 09:20:26 UTC
Mike Fabian first told me about this and I now see it at the end of
a TC3 netinstall on my Thinkpad T500.

I guess anaconda is crashing before setting up the bootloader:
the system does not boot anyway on reboot.

Proposing as an Alpha blocker, though more details are needed.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2013-03-29 09:35:31 UTC
The machine doesn't lockup completely though after anaconda crashes
so it should be possible to go into a vconsole and extract more info
(unfortunately I didn't, naively expecting the system would boot).

Comment 3 Mike FABIAN 2013-03-29 12:17:10 UTC
I guess this is a duplicate of bug#928287

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2013-03-29 12:48:17 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 928287 ***


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