Aprox 25 failed http and DVD installs of FC5 and counting :o/
David Cary Hart
Fedora at TQMcube.com
Tue Apr 25 19:18:53 UTC 2006
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:18:32 +0100
Dave Russell <d.russell at eris.qinetiq.com> opined:
> I have a system that was running FC4 up until very recently.
>
> I first tried to install FC5 in the same way I do all my home
> installs, using a boot iso and a local http source (loopback
> mounted FC5 DVD iso, sha1sum'd to ensure integrity).
>
> The install fails each time (on average) at between 5 and 60%
> through the rpm install phase.
>
> The machine locks hard, and it is not possible to switch to another
> VT or do anything except power off the machine.
>
> A DVD install performs in exactly the same way.
>
> On the handful of times that I am able to get a very minimal
> install installed (by removing all the packages from the install
> selection), the machine soon locks up when adding more packages or
> running yum update.
>
> The lockup's appear to be ext3 throwing wobblers and re-mounting
> filesystems as read only.
>
> EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): ext3_delete_entry: bad entry in
> directory #1376454:
> inode out of bounds - offset=0, inode=914432000, rec_len=12,
> name_len=1 Aborting journal on device dm-0.
> ext3_abort called.
> EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected
> aborted journal Remounting filesystem read-only
> EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in ext3_unlink: IO failure
>
> My initial suspicions were a co-incidental imminent hardware
> failure... however I have run memtest86 overnight to confirm no
> issues with memory, and have also done a read/write destructive
> badblocks test on the array which also reported no problems.
>
> I've raised a bugzilla case, but so far no joy.... can anyone help,
> or suggest anything else I should try?
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189570
>
> Here's hoping.
>
Have you tried fsck from a rescue disk?
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