Subject: Install fails transferring packages syslog
From: Adam Dershowitz (dersh@alum.mit.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 19:48:56 MST
I still can't get past "transferring packages" followed by "error
running transaction set" and "please correct this manually"
and I have tried a bunch of different things (text only, and graphic
installer, downloading the image from a different mirror and
reburning it, format then reboot and install, default and custom
install, many packages and disabling a bunch of them, I tried
creating a bootloader partition, just in case the installer tried to
write to that...) .
I am running on a 7300 with a G3 card in it, although it had been a
200 (A bunch of people on this list have had problems installing on
7300/200s, I wonder if that is a coincidence?). The machine has the
original 2G harddrive and also has a larger one that is part HFS+ and
then has an HFS partition (as my /home) and then has the partitions
for Linux on that same drive.
I did have linuxPPC on this machine but have used the 2.1 installer
to reformat the root partition.
The installer does mount the root partition (/dev/sdb6) as /tmp/root
and also mounts my old /home (/dev/sbd8) as /tmp/home but clearly
something is very wrong.
I was able to use the text installer and to save my syslog. I don't
understand a bunch of what is in the system log, but I hope that
someone can take a look at the seconds half of this file and help me
make sense of it.
Any other suggestions of what to try, or what is wrong, would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
--Adam
syslog:
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<5>RAMDISK: Loading compressed image into ram disk...
Uncompressing........................................................................done
disk #1.
<4>done.
<4>Freeing initrd memory: 3611k freed
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k init 8k chrp 8k prep
<6>hub.c: USB new device connect on bus4/1, assigned device number 2
<6>hub.c: USB hub found
<6>hub.c: 4 ports detected
<7>VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
<4>SCSI device sdb: 17850000 512-byte hdwr sectors (9139 MB)
<6> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11
<6>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
<7>VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,32)
<4>sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
<4>Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
<4>Additional sense indicates Medium not present
<4>sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
<6> /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target5/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
<4> unable to read partition table
<6>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
<7>VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,32)
<4>sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
<4>Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
<4>Additional sense indicates Medium not present
<4>sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
<6> /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target5/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
<4> unable to read partition table
<6>Adding Swap: 102388k swap-space (priority -1)
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