Bug 11991

Summary:	FATAL ERROR IN INIT: fatal error finishing initialization (could not create symlinks)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Christian Bryant <admin>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud, tremyfr
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Christian Bryant 2013-12-15 01:45:35 CET

Description of problem: FATAL ERROR IN INIT: fatal error finishing initialization (could not create symlinks)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia 4 Beta 2 (Cauldron) x86_64


How reproducible: Every time I try to install Mageia 4 Beta 2 x86_64


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert new Mageia 4 Beta 2 DVD x86_64
2. Boot to DVD - DVD Starts to boot
3. Loading Linux Kernal
4. Loading programs into memory - hangs at 52%
5. Crashes:

Error opening symlink definition file '/tmp/stage2/usr/share/symlinks'

FATAL ERROR IN INIT: fatal error finishing initialization (could not create symlinks)

I can't recover from this, please reboot manually and file a bug report



Reproducible: 

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Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-12-22 15:16:56 CET

Is the md5/sha1 good ? (you are the first one to report such issue, which is strange)

also can you reproduce with the i586 or dual iso ?

Comment 2 trem 2014-02-08 13:53:01 CET

I've reproduced this issue with qemu avec the i586 dvd install.
The issue was fixed by adding -m 512 to the qemu command line.

So I suppose that this issue is caused when there isn't enough
memory on the box.

How many memory have you got ?

CC: (none) => tremyfr

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-19 12:26:44 CEST

Dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14544 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE