Hi!
I'm building up a new computer and this evening have had several events during installation in which Anaconda has crashed. It's not clear that there is a lot of commonality between the different crashes.
the first time I got all the way through package selection (selecting at the individual package level) before it crashed.
the second time I made a mistake in partitioning and did BACK several screens to fix it, then when clicking NEXT several times to go forward to where I had been, it blew up.
then it blew up while partitioning.
then it blew up there again, though at a different place.
I don't think there should be any problem with making /home 200 gigs,... doesn't ext3 have a limit something more like a terabyte or more?
it's a gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 board with an AMD Phenom II X2 550 clocked at 3.1 Ghz, and 4 gigs of g.skill ram (which has run for several hours under memtest86+ with no problems.)
Anyone got any helpful suggestions!
BTW, I ran 3 different live-Cd distros on it today, for several hours, just looking for problems, and didn't find any, so I'm thinking the hardware is reasonably stable. (one always wonders, when it's all brand-new.)
Thanks!
fred smith wrote:
Hi!
I'm building up a new computer and this evening have had several events during installation in which Anaconda has crashed. It's not clear that there is a lot of commonality between the different crashes.
Crash how? does it freeze? When I've seen anaconda crash it usually produces a stack dump which can point to where it crashed exactly.
I have had anaconda crash a lot while using LVM over the years during installation, do you happen to be trying to setup LVM during installation? If so try not using LVM and see if that helps at all.
nate
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:08:40PM -0700, nate wrote:
fred smith wrote:
Hi!
I'm building up a new computer and this evening have had several events during installation in which Anaconda has crashed. It's not clear that there is a lot of commonality between the different crashes.
Crash how? does it freeze? When I've seen anaconda crash it usually produces a stack dump which can point to where it crashed exactly.
Yes, a very long dump is produced. (rant: I hate those apps that give you a large chunk of text to look at, but put it in a small window that cannot be re-sized.) I'm afraid it doesn't mean much to me, though I've skimmed it a couple of times and nothing helpful has leaped out at me. it's verrrrrrry long.
I have had anaconda crash a lot while using LVM over the years during installation, do you happen to be trying to setup LVM during installation? If so try not using LVM and see if that helps at all.
no, no LVM. there's a howto on the Centos wiki about building "partitionable" RAID configurations, and I'm trying to follow that.
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nate