Rawhide/F11 install report: install fails without exception save opportunity

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 16:05 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 14:17 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:42 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > >> The VNC install failed quietly with the only culprit to finger being a 
> > >> python assertion error:
> > >>
> > >> python: Modules/gcmodule.c:242: update_refs: Assertion\
> > >>    `gc->gc.gc.refs == (-3)' failed.
> > >>
> > >> Then it simply kills the VNC and reports an installer error.
> > >>
> > >> i686.pae machine
> > >> Radeon QD 7200 R100 video
> > >> 1.5Go RAM
> > >> standard PATA disks, etc.
> > > 
> > > At what point exactly does it fail?
> > 
> > That's the problem, no traceback to leave the graphical window on the 
> > screen make it impossible to know.  It was after software customization 
> > and during/before dependency resolution.
> 
> Silent crash during dep resolution, eh? That could be a memory problem -
> either not enough RAM (unlikely - 1.5G is plenty) or bad hardware. 
> 
> Is it reproduceable? What's on the other VTs after the crash?

For the record, I just ran a couple of successful VNC installs with
today's rawhide - one on ppc64, even. So the problem is particular to
your setup.

-w