Re: 1.0 Installer

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:15 24-5-2001 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Seth Mos wrote:
> >
> > The installer seems to barf when trying to Upgrade a installation of a
> > system where the XFS filesystem is not clean.
> > I had to boot the machine another time to recover the filesystem to a clean
> > state before I could try to upgrade it.
>
> Hm, we didn't anticipate this scenario.  :)  FWIW, the same thing
> happens under ext2, if it detects that a filesystem was not cleanly
> unmounted, the install won't continue.

Uhm, that shouldn't happen with a journaling fs :D

> > It first says that it will to upgrade the linux system on hda6 Anaconda
> > then throws me a error that there is no linux system on hda6 (which is the
> > root fs).
> >
> > Although it may be hardware issues, the box is acting funny every now and
> > then. It should not produce this error, but recover the fs on mount during
> > install, would it?
>
> I'm not sure if mount returns differently based on whether or not it
> went through recovery... if so, anaconda may be interpreting this as a
> problem.  I'd have to look into it... but for now, just run an upgrade
> only on clean systems, I guess.

I will, it's one for the archives.

> You say it's acting funny, do you mean _after_ the install?

Uhm no, before, during and after. Is that the right answer ;)
Seriously, I have seen the installer die with signal 11 when the cd drive 
was slave on the 2nd channel.
fsck.ext2 produced a signal 11 during boot when the /boot was clean.
It produced a signal 11 and a 4 during some other attempts after starting 
anaconda.

I will run memtest when it's upgraded.
The machine was a redhat 7.0 system that was installed at that time with 
the 2.4.0-test5 installer. And that one went fine :-)

The kernel that I had compiled on the machine does not misbehave that often.

It's weird though, I tried to make the machine fall over by compiling the 
kernel a 1000 times with make -j20 but it completed succesfully.
So for some reason the tide here seems to affect the stability of the machine.

> > Just checking if anyone else has seen this behaviour.
> > Does anyone know if this also happens when the ext2 fs is dirty or not?
>
> Yep, the installer will ask you to reboot & fix the problem.

It did not ask me to reboot and fix the problem, it just reported there was 
no linux installation on /dev/hda6 and decided that enough was enough.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.