BUG in Anaconda, it seems -- more, maybe
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Wed May 21 15:35:17 UTC 2008
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:42:57 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
> I tried to install F9 onto an oldish ASUS, which was already
> triple-booting F8, Centos5, and Ubuntu7.10 (which upgraded itself, with
> a little help from me, to 8.whatever this week).
>
> It went happily on for hours, and was apparently installing
> Tomboy (God knows why; I don't use it, and thought I had pirutted it
> away long ago) -- when it hit an unhandled exception, "probably a bug."
[...]
> So I haven't filed the bug report, can't, and won't -- afaik,
> it's gone, lost in cyberspace. I can't even boot that machine to Fedora
> any more. [....]
I am now on that machine, running Ubuntu 8.04 on another
partition. I have done the following (knowing F8 to be, or have been,
installed on /dev/sda3). I see a couple of new things; if any look to be
of any use, let me know what to do and how, and I'll try to get what info
I can.
root at SblzUb:~# cd /
root at SblzUb:/# ls
bin etc initrd.img media root TEST vmlinuz
boot Grubberies initrd.img.old mnt sbin tmp vmlinuz.old
cdrom home lib opt srv usr
dev initrd lost+found proc sys var
root at SblzUb:/# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 TEST
root at SblzUb:/# cd TEST
root at SblzUb:/TEST# ls
bin Grubberies lost+found net root sys var
boot halt media opt sbin TEST
dev home misc proc selinux tmp
etc lib mnt rhinstall-stage2.img srv usr
root at SblzUb:/TEST# file rhinstall-stage2.img
rhinstall-stage2.img: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.1,
106729893 bytes, 12005 inodes, blocksize: 131072 bytes, created: Wed May
7 21:52:33 2008
root at SblzUb:/TEST#
To the best of my knowledge and belief, "halt" and "rhinstall-
stage2.img" are new -- and both show up a different color on my screen
than most of the rest. I'm not sure whether anything else is new.
I'm thinking that rhinstall thing (note the date!), whatever it
is, *might* just maybe still contain the bug report, or at least
something of interest to those who understand such things. But all I know
of .img files is that I have seen that suffix somewhere before.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.3;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.16, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know little (precious little!) of what I am talking about.
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