On Sat, 20 May 2000, you wrote:
>
> Problem:
>
> I boot off of the CD and get to the point where the packages are being to install
>(The left side of the screen has green dots all the way down till the Install System
>that one is yellow. The bar begins to move along as the different packages are
>installed). I think then system attempts to boot to the graphical install mode of X
>Windows and fails. I get all kinds of crap on the screen. See below.
>
> Perl: warning falling back to the standard locale ("C")
> Date Time Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library at
>/usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtkp line 240
> Install exited abnormally -- revived signal 11
That is SIGSEGV--segmentation fault--and it is occurring while you are loading
packages from the CD, which means that
a) You have an error reading the material from the CD into memory
or
b) You have an error in memory on your machine
In the case of a), certain CDs and certain CD Drives do not necessarily
mix--you can call it a CD media error or a CD Drive error or an ancient or worn
CD drive without revealing the source of the problem. Obvious things to do are
as follows:
1. Try different media if it is available--or try an install via FTP or hard
disk or network if you have the resources to support it.
2. Mount a different CD drive, if you have one available
3. Retry the preocess and make sure the error message repeats at the same
spot, else, start thinking of b)
b) is not necessarily memory. It could also be motherboard; in fact that is
more likely in most cases. EVEN IF your motherboard seems to work under
another OS (with the exception of the stupid freeze-ups of that "other" OS, a
lot of mobo manufacturers and some cynical computer makers put out a shoddy
product with a lot of corners cut, figuring you will blame the software.
Linux-Mandrake is 586 (Pentium) code and tightens the requirements of the
hardware somewhere close to spec, and quite a lot of hardware fails on ghostly
signal reflections and such which would almost always work in 386 code systems.
So the answer is--swap out what you can, and make sure everything has
adequate cooling--this is unlikely a problem of your method or of the software.
I know this is NOT what you wanted to hear, but it is my best assessment of
your situation.
Civileme
> (--) FBDev Frame buffer device: VESA VGA
> (--) FBDev Video memory :4096K @ 0xfd000000
> (--) FBDev MMIOregs:OK @ (nil)
> (--) FBDev type_aux 0 bits-per-pixel 16
> (--) FBDev Hardware acceleration
> (--) FBDev No driver support for hardware
> (--) FBDev acceleration bpp=16, depth=16, bits per RGB=6
> (--) FBDev Using Cfb 16 driver
> error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/security Policy
> sending termination signals.. done
>
> Any clue as to what might be wrong??? How to fix???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Troy
>
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