Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97410
Installation failure
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
Description of problem: When installing on a "brand new setup" 2x IDE disks 60Mb each. Pentium 4 2.4Ghrtz 512Mb RAM Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Redhat 9 How reproducible: Boot from CD, go thru install prompt up to entering root password..then system installion aborts. Actual results: Installation aborts! Expected results: ...to continue with installation. Additional info: When exception occurred info appears and saved to Floppy. This is the text that appears every time I try. // quote Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 761, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 157, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 225, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 151, in readPackages id.comps = method.readComps(id.hdList) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/installmethod.py", line 64, in readComps return self.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 37, in readCompsViaMethod return ComponentSet(fname, hdlist) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 1035, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 740, in readCompsFile self.compsxml = rhpl.comps.Comps(file) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 297, in __init__ self.load (filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 304, in load doc = libxml2.parseMemory(file, len(file)) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 976, in parseMemory if ret is None:raise parserError('xmlParseMemory() failed') parserError: xmlParseMemory() failed // end quote
Have you performed the mediacheck on all CD media?
yep - twice already.
This error only occurs if there is a lack of memory or if there are read errors from the installation device, in this case the CD. It might possibly happen if there were errors from the hard drives but that is doubtful. I would recommend trying a different CD drive if possible.
good news! the problem was corrupt memory chips. after trying and failing to install 7 (yes seven!) different os's i had the hardware bench tested and came to the shocking discovery that windows reads only a portion of the memory chip (hence no memory errors). where redhat reads the chip in a different way with a more intense integrity (hence all the errors i got). i am sure that 99% of the err's out there that look like this are related to bad memory chips. so this call can be closed. thanks for all your help.
Wow nice work! I've been thinking of adding memtest86 (a memory test utility) to the boot CD so people could test their systems.