Description of problem: Trying to install Fedora 19 under VMware Fusion. Boots OK, but immediately crashes when clicking the "install to hard drive" icon. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 19 Alpha How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into the desktop 2. Click "Install" icon 3. Crash Actual results: Crash Expected results: Expected the installer to come up and allow me to install the distribution.... Additional info: Fedora 17 and 18 work fine on VMware Fusion. Not sure if it's a KDE Live CD bug (I am using KDE but did not install from KDE live CD previously) or Anaconda, or something else. Attaching logs.
Can you please check in /tmp for an anaconda-tb-* file and if you see one, attach it to this bug report? Thanks.
Created attachment 739470 [details] Anaconda Log file Anaconda log from the bug report.
Hi Chris, There wasn't an anaconda-tb* file, but there was an anaconda.log. Does that help? If not, I can try again and see if that file exists on another go around.
No, I don't really see anything obvious in there. What's the nature of the crash you are noticing? You could also try firing up a terminal from within the live environment, running /usr/bin/liveinst, and seeing if more useful error messages are printed there.
It just drops to the login screen, no real warning or error messages. I'll give that a shot and see what I can find. Thanks!
One more idea - can you grab /tmp/X.log as well?
Hi Chris, OK, so even trying to start Konsole by right-clicking causes a crash and restart to the login screen. There's no X.log under /tmp, but I did grab the .xsession-errors file from the liveuser's home directory. It seems to have a little info on why the session crashed, so maybe that will help?
Created attachment 740813 [details] xsession-errors file from Fedora 19 KDE Live CD alpha xsession-errors file.
Comment 7 makes it sound like something fundamental is very screwed up. Did you verify your media before attempting to install? Bad downloads/burns can often explain these weird problems. There could also be something specific to KDE that is the problem here, but I do not know what it would be. Reassigning.
X.Org X11 is crashing, most likely a graphics driver bug. The file /var/log/Xorg.0.log (that's where it should be located in a live CD/DVD session, just like on an installed system, not /tmp/X.log) might have more information.
Possibly related to Bug 956325
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-7181/xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.0.1-1.fc19 might well fix this. I'll try and pull it into the next TC, but if you can think of a way to test in the meantime, please do, and add karma to the update!
TC3 should have this fix, and we can verify that the images now work ok on vmware.
Pretty sure this and 956325 were the same. Beta TC3 should work if you try that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 956325 ***