->fc6: Pkg Installation - "may take several minutes" - 36 hours later!!

Strong strong_yethumble at pochta.ru
Sat May 12 16:27:40 UTC 2007


On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:31:53 +0000 Marko Vojinovic
<vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
> Yup, you can even use the apps that are already installed. I heard
> from a friend (but not tried myself) that you can even watch a movie
> with mplayer during the install :-)

Can You find out how? In X?

> I had the exact same behavior on a similar machine (700MHz, 128MB
> RAM) doing a clean install. On a dozen various attempts, anaconda
> just hanged at random points --- during "starting install process",
> or during installation of this or that package (mostly somwhere in
> the middle of the install). No matter graphical or text installation,
> no matter the selection of packages. The install media passed the
> check. The symptoms are always the same --- top shows anaconda is
> working 99%, hd is idle, everything else is waiting. Memtest ran ok
> for several hours before...  

The time has come to kick out anaconda, is it?! Or to simplify it at
least.




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