Hey all,
I've downloaded the latest CentOS 5.0 and the md5sums look good. I loop-back mounted the ISOs and pulled all of the RPMs out into a single dir. I have an existing PXE environment with several different distros to which I added 5.0. RPMs are served from my HTTPS server. I used the isolinux.cfg that was provided and all *looks* good.
The problem is that on 4 *very* different systems I get the same error. I install to the point in the installer where the X.org server shows the big "X" cursor with the black background and it just freezes. I hit Ctl-Alt-F3 and see the same message repeating over and over again....
Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path ...
I tracked it down to this code in Anaconda... <code> def getTempPath(self): root = self.rootPath pathlist = [ "/var/tmp", "/tmp", "/." ] tmppath = None for p in pathlist: if (os.access(root + p, os.X_OK)): tmppath = root + p + "/" break
if tmppath is None: log("Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path") return "/tmp/"
return tmppath </code>
Has anyone see this or know what's happening to cause this? I can give dmesg or other info if you think it will be helpful. BTW, this happens with the CD install also on 4 *very* different computers.
Thanks, Gabe
Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
Hey all,
I've downloaded the latest CentOS 5.0 and the md5sums look good. I loop-back mounted the ISOs and pulled all of the RPMs out into a single dir. I have an existing PXE environment with several different distros to which I added 5.0. RPMs are served from my HTTPS server. I used the isolinux.cfg that was provided and all *looks* good.
firstly, the release notes mention you cant do this with the cd's anymore - you need to use the DVD for that or directly use the isos without loop mounting it back in.
secondly, I dont think your error is related to the isos :) you have something else that is broken, a kickstart perhaps ?
I am quite sure the CD install works fine on most machines, its possible there is something odd about your setup, but you didnt provide any details as to how you checked the cd install.
- KB
On 4/16/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
Hey all,
I've downloaded the latest CentOS 5.0 and the md5sums look good. I loop-back mounted the ISOs and pulled all of the RPMs out into a single dir. I have an existing PXE environment with several different distros to which I added 5.0. RPMs are served from my HTTPS server. I used the isolinux.cfg that was provided and all *looks* good.
firstly, the release notes mention you cant do this with the cd's anymore - you need to use the DVD for that or directly use the isos without loop mounting it back in.
secondly, I dont think your error is related to the isos :) you have something else that is broken, a kickstart perhaps ?
I am quite sure the CD install works fine on most machines, its possible there is something odd about your setup, but you didnt provide any details as to how you checked the cd install.
Hmmm, I thought I read the release notes - I guess not as well as I thought.
As for the CDs, I'll have to check them again.
Thanks for the feedback,
Gabe
I used the 6 CD iso's, looped back, copied to a dir, exported the dir, then burned a boot cd with the delivered diskboot.img
I was able to install the basic "Server" (NOT GUI) on 2 separate machines over the network. This is OT for the X issue, but speaks to the loopback/CD isos.
Mike Putnam
On 4/16/07, Gabriel Gunderson ggundy@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/16/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
Hey all,
I've downloaded the latest CentOS 5.0 and the md5sums look good. I loop-back mounted the ISOs and pulled all of the RPMs out into a single dir. I have an existing PXE environment with several different distros to which I added 5.0. RPMs are served from my HTTPS server. I used the isolinux.cfg that was provided and all *looks* good.
firstly, the release notes mention you cant do this with the cd's anymore - you need to use the DVD for that or directly use the isos without loop mounting it back in.
secondly, I dont think your error is related to the isos :) you have something else that is broken, a kickstart perhaps ?
I am quite sure the CD install works fine on most machines, its possible there is something odd about your setup, but you didnt provide any details as to how you checked the cd install.
Hmmm, I thought I read the release notes - I guess not as well as I thought.
As for the CDs, I'll have to check them again.
Thanks for the feedback,
Gabe
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On 4/16/07, Mike Putnam mike@theputnams.net wrote:
I used the 6 CD iso's, looped back, copied to a dir, exported the dir, then burned a boot cd with the delivered diskboot.img
I was able to install the basic "Server" (NOT GUI) on 2 separate machines over the network. This is OT for the X issue, but speaks to the loopback/CD isos.
It's wasn't really an X issue as it also happened in text mode . I was just giving that as a point of reference in the install.
As it turns out, the problem is very plainly outlined in the release notes for CentOS. I read the UOP's notes as they generally have more detail. It took me a whole weekend, but I've learned my lesson :)
Hi Mike,
Mike Putnam wrote:
I used the 6 CD iso's, looped back, copied to a dir, exported the dir, then burned a boot cd with the delivered diskboot.img
I was able to install the basic "Server" (NOT GUI) on 2 separate machines over the network. This is OT for the X issue, but speaks to the loopback/CD isos.
this is a bit odd. What are the chances that you never needed anything beyond cd-1 to do the installs that you did ? this process will work for that - but it wont work if you needed to move beyond the first CD.
It can be potentially be made to work with a change inside stage2.img and recreating the metadata for the tree.
On 4/16/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
I've downloaded the latest CentOS 5.0 and the md5sums look good. I loop-back mounted the ISOs and pulled all of the RPMs out into a single dir. I have an existing PXE environment with several different distros to which I added 5.0. RPMs are served from my HTTPS server. I used the isolinux.cfg that was provided and all *looks* good.
firstly, the release notes mention you cant do this with the cd's anymore - you need to use the DVD for that or directly use the isos without loop mounting it back in.
Hmm, just tried out the DVD at it gets to the exact same spot in the install. Strange.
I think I may have a clue in my http logs:
"GET /1/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 - "GET /2/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 - "GET /3/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 - "GET /4/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 - ... "GET /100/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 - "GET /101/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 - "GET /102/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 - "GET /103/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 200 -
At least I now have something to google :)
I am quite sure the CD install works fine on most machines, its possible there is something odd about your setup, but you didnt provide any details as to how you checked the cd install.
Yeah, I'm sure you're right. I just want to spare myself the pain of burning them and installing from CD.
Thanks again for your help.
Hi,
Well, my symptom differs but in the end I can't install either!
I had downloaded both the i386 and x86_64 DVDs (MD5 are ok on both).
I had this DVDs loop-mounted on my NFS server, and tried install from this using an boot CD. This method works nice on 4.92.
The install process runs ok, but after format the install partition it hangs, on the console the last messages are:
<5>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xa87f <5>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2a10520, size faca
Somebody else runs on this?
I had installed 4.92 on the same way without a problem!
Thanks in advance,
Antonio.
On 4/18/07, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior asmartins@uem.br wrote:
Hi,
Well, my symptom differs but in the end I can't install either!
I had downloaded both the i386 and x86_64 DVDs (MD5 are ok on both).
I had this DVDs loop-mounted on my NFS server, and tried install from this using an boot CD. This method works nice on 4.92.
The install process runs ok, but after format the install partition it hangs, on the console the last messages are:
<5>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xa87f <5>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2a10520, size faca
Somebody else runs on this?
I had installed 4.92 on the same way without a problem!
I have seen this with the upstream kernel. I had thought it was a problem with their 'licensing' subcode but it looks like it might be something more. What kind of hardware are you trying to install on? The problem we saw was on Dell Optiplex 740's and some Sun AMD boxes.
On 4/18/07, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/18/07, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior asmartins@uem.br wrote:
Hi,
Well, my symptom differs but in the end I can't install either!
I had downloaded both the i386 and x86_64 DVDs (MD5 are ok on both).
I had this DVDs loop-mounted on my NFS server, and tried install from this using an boot CD. This method works nice on 4.92.
The install process runs ok, but after format the install partition it hangs, on the console the last messages are:
<5>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xa87f <5>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2a10520, size faca
Somebody else runs on this?
I had installed 4.92 on the same way without a problem!
I have seen this with the upstream kernel. I had thought it was a problem with their 'licensing' subcode but it looks like it might be something more. What kind of hardware are you trying to install on? The problem we saw was on Dell Optiplex 740's and some Sun AMD boxes.
I have the same problem. md5sum and sha1sum for the i386 and x86_64 DVD images are ok. I can even install without any problem from the DVD locally. It only fails when doing a NFS install with a similar SQUASHFS error message as described above. The NFS server is RHES 4U4.
The hardware I'm trying to install to is a Asrock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 mainboard, a Core2Duo E6600 CPU and 4 GB of RAM. LAN card is a Intel Gigabit PCI card as the onboard Gigabit Realtek card is not yet supported with Centos 5.0.
Best regards, Bernd.
----- "Bernd Bartmann" bernd.bartmann@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/18/07, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/18/07, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior asmartins@uem.br
wrote:
Hi,
Well, my symptom differs but in the end I can't install either!
I had downloaded both the i386 and x86_64 DVDs (MD5 are ok on
both).
I had this DVDs loop-mounted on my NFS server, and tried install
from this
using an boot CD. This method works nice on 4.92.
The install process runs ok, but after format the install
partition it hangs,
on the console the last messages are:
<5>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xa87f <5>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2a10520, size faca
Somebody else runs on this?
I had installed 4.92 on the same way without a problem!
I have seen this with the upstream kernel. I had thought it was a problem with their 'licensing' subcode but it looks like it might
be
something more. What kind of hardware are you trying to install on? The problem we saw was on Dell Optiplex 740's and some Sun AMD
boxes.
I have the same problem. md5sum and sha1sum for the i386 and x86_64 DVD images are ok. I can even install without any problem from the DVD locally. It only fails when doing a NFS install with a similar SQUASHFS error message as described above. The NFS server is RHES 4U4.
The hardware I'm trying to install to is a Asrock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 mainboard, a Core2Duo E6600 CPU and 4 GB of RAM. LAN card is a Intel Gigabit PCI card as the onboard Gigabit Realtek card is not yet supported with Centos 5.0.
Yep,
burned a DVD and it install ok. I'm installing on a test machine MoBo Intel SE7520BD2 with 2 Xeon 2.8GHz HT processors, using the onboard LSI Logic SCSI controller, Intel NIC, etc... (I'm using all onboard).
I'll try to install on one of my servers (HP DL380 G4) next week.
Thanks,
Antonio.
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 08:04 -0300, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
----- "Bernd Bartmann" bernd.bartmann@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/18/07, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/18/07, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior asmartins@uem.br
wrote:
Hi,
Well, my symptom differs but in the end I can't install either!
I had downloaded both the i386 and x86_64 DVDs (MD5 are ok on
both).
I had this DVDs loop-mounted on my NFS server, and tried install
from this
using an boot CD. This method works nice on 4.92.
The install process runs ok, but after format the install
partition it hangs,
on the console the last messages are:
<5>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xa87f <5>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2a10520, size faca
Somebody else runs on this?
I had installed 4.92 on the same way without a problem!
I have seen this with the upstream kernel. I had thought it was a problem with their 'licensing' subcode but it looks like it might
be
something more. What kind of hardware are you trying to install on? The problem we saw was on Dell Optiplex 740's and some Sun AMD
boxes.
I have the same problem. md5sum and sha1sum for the i386 and x86_64 DVD images are ok. I can even install without any problem from the DVD locally. It only fails when doing a NFS install with a similar SQUASHFS error message as described above. The NFS server is RHES 4U4.
The hardware I'm trying to install to is a Asrock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2 mainboard, a Core2Duo E6600 CPU and 4 GB of RAM. LAN card is a Intel Gigabit PCI card as the onboard Gigabit Realtek card is not yet supported with Centos 5.0.
Yep,
burned a DVD and it install ok. I'm installing on a test machine MoBo Intel SE7520BD2 with 2 Xeon 2.8GHz HT processors, using the onboard LSI Logic SCSI controller, Intel NIC, etc... (I'm using all onboard).
I'll try to install on one of my servers (HP DL380 G4) next week.
Thanks,
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