On Wednesday 27 June 2001 21:49, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> I started this thread Wed, 20 Jun 2001 and I'm still trying. I
> can't believe it's this difficult. I made a brand new local mirror
> of
> sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake/8.0/i586/ using rsync, without exclusions,
> on my main machine, and tried installing from network.img floppy
> using NFS export.
>
> The repository was found, 2nd stage install started, used existing
> partitions and formatted /. Selected packages (recommended, no
> individual) then the installer crashed:
> * reading /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
> * done
> * segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the install
> crashes
>
> This is reproduceable. I have a report.bug - can I send it to
> someone?
Ummm, I have seen that statement many times... It almost always
means one of three things.
1. Cable to HDD needs removal & reseating or outright replacement.
2. "Hole" in HDD (if you are using WD hard disks you never know till
a verify step occurs (and WDs is where this happens from disk based
problems)
3. Yep, like the proggie says, memory. /images/memtest-x86.bin is
your friend. Just dd it to a floppy and boot with it on your install
target.
You can send me the bug report, but I can already tell you it wasn't
reproduceable here, unless you have incompletely described it. Of
course you migh have a heavy load on your NFS server which I did not
have here. And NFS in 8.0 is fragile, thanks to all the reiser
patches, which still don't seem to make reiser work as well as we
would like.
Civileme
QA Team
