On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:02, I wrote: I've resolved this issue, and here is the answer for anyone else who may encounter the same problem later. > So I ask again, can a misconfigured kickstart configuration file > cause this problem? The answer is a resounding yes. The following line in the kickstart configuration file causes the kickstart installation to fail with "installation exited abnormally -- received signal 11": url --url http://hostname Adding a slash at the end of the url makes the problem go away. I would say this is a bug in Anaconda. What's the best way to log this bug to make sure it gets fixed by the upstream provider? Alfred