Hello,
I went to install OpenSUsE 10.1 beta6 on my latitude d500 (to test another bug) when it hard crashed during setup. It just totally froze at the graphical installer in the middle of installing packages (it was at 100% for installing hplip), I couldn't move the mouse, I couldn't do ctrl + alt + F1, there was no hard drive access, I didn't see a kernel panic message, etc. I was doing a HTTP install, more details below. I would like to know if there is anyway I can get more information about what happened so as to help solve a potential bug. I could go ahead and try to install again, but that would delete any install logs that might contain information about what went wrong, and it might succeed and thus not reproduce that log info. I looked through /var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM (it didn't report hplip as being installed) and y2start.log, but they don't seem to indicate any problem. People at freenode suggested I run a memory test and the sisoft Sandra burn in test (I have windows XP on another partition), but both of them completed successfully. Furthermore, I can't ever remember a time my computer crashed on me, unless I was using ndiswrapper or hot swapping stuff I shouldn't have. I have done stress intensive stuff such as copying large amounts of data, using the 10/100 NIC near 100%, using the wireless card (which produces a lot of heat and is next to the CPU) while using the CPU a lot, or playing games (full CPU and integrated graphics usage.) It would have to be a very big coincidence if it just happened to crash for hardware reasons this time. I find it very unlikely that it overheated, like was suggested on IRC, since the wireless card couldn't even have been used, it's a totally unsupported Broadcom. This install was done by downloading the CD ISO's, using makeSUSEdvd to combine them into one installation source (makeSUSEdvd -s -i), and then using the mini iso to point to that source, shared over HTTP from another machine on the same LAN. I was using my Intel pro 100 VE for this. I have used makeSUSEdvd on 10.1 beta6 before successfully, on an x86_64 source that was burnt to a DVD, and it worked fine. It did have some trouble trying to access it over SMB, but then I put the source on HTTP and it was fine. I did a pretty custom package selection (again, it crashed while installing hplip), and I did have it format the partition it was installing to with reiserFS. My system is a latitude d500, with a Pentium-m 1.3, 384 megs of ram, intel 855GM, a Hitachi IC25NO40ATCS05-0 hard drive, an LG CRN-8245B CD-ROM drive, and an Intel pro 100 VE with a MS intellimouse optical plugged in. Again, if anyone can give advice on identifying the problem through data on the partition, I'd appreciate it. If that is impossible, I'd like to know that too so I can try again. I'm just trying to do whatever I can to help identify what is probably a bug. -Mike
