Thanks for the bug report.

Switch to console 2 (by pressing 'Ctrl-Alt-F2') during installation, put a floppy in floppy drive or plug a USB key/stick and type: 'bug' then press Enter. It will put report.bug on the floppy/key.

An then attach it in this bug 

(you can also see info in the other tty)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Created attachment 1386 [details]
Log, requested by Manuel

Thanks, Manuel - I attached the log after trying once again with the ftp.mandrivausers.de mirror (With the same results)

By the way, does the shell on tty2 offer a 'top'-like command for monitoring process activity? I would like to see whether the installer went into some kind of deadlock, or if it is just trying to do something in the background (Which is somehow taking an absurd amount of time (?))

Ok thanks.

* wrote config file [/mnt/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]
* urpmi completely set up

So seems there is no issue there.


* id2edd: 0x6b9cff4a=>/sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80 0x000ee1f3=>/sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev81
* geometry_from_edd sdb 0x6b9cff4a: 7656/64/32
* geometry_from_edd sda 0x000ee1f3: 60801/255/63
* test_for_bad_drives(/dev/sda on sector #62)
* running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda
* running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda
* found a dos partition table on /dev/sda at sector 0
* guess_geometry_from_partition_table sda: 60801/255/63
* is_geometry_valid_for_the_partition_table failed for (sda1, 87889919): 1023,254,62 vs 1023,228,5 with geometry 60801/255/63

Thierry, I'm correct if I said than there is an issue with the harddrive ?

But maybe I'am wrong.

>By the way, does the shell on tty2 offer a 'top'-like command for monitoring
>process activity?

I would said no, since it's only a busybox, but I can be again wrong.

Created attachment 1388 [details]
Log w/ clean installation (Disk erased before install)

>* is_geometry_valid_for_the_partition_table failed for (sda1, 87889919): 1023,254,62 vs 1023,228,5 with geometry 60801/255/63

Ok, I erased the disk & attempted a reinstall - the above error is now gone, yet the installer still hangs. The drive is new and I checked the SMART values again, so I don't think it's a hardware issue (Other distros work fine)

Interestingly, the output from 'ps' indicates that /usr/bin/runinstall2 is consuming around 50-60% CPU, so the installer seems to be doing *something*, it never seems to finish, however - the installer is still unresponsive even after ~1h.

Wouldn't be the same as this wouldn't it?

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4124

CC: (none) => wilcal.int

@William: I don't think it is - this bug is about the netboot iso, not the DVD. I still haven't tested whether the same problem occurs on the Magia 2 alphas.

The netboot iso of Mageia 2 alpha3 works fine without any issues on the same machine, might I add (Just tested). I still have no clear idea why this happens on Mageia 1, but as it stands, the network install is broken for the current stable release.

Was there any drastic changes / fixes in the drakx installer from Mageia 1 -> Mageia 2 which might have affected this issue?

Yep there is lot of improvement and fix for drakx-installer
http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/NEWS?revision=2772&view=markup

But I don't know with one it can be.

Ok to close ?

As a workaround for mga 1, you can use the dual iso.

Yeah, it seems that there is nothing that can be done about this... Well, at least it doesn't happen on mga2.

@Manuel: Ok to close, not sure what it should be tagged with, though - WONTFIX? I'll leave it up to you. Thanks.

It's more an "Resolved in the next release" but well, let's go for the fixed :)

thanks

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 2