Subject: Re: ydl-2.0 on powerbook/lombard: lose lose lose
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 16:22:04 MDT
Art,
Sounds like you got one of our bad discs. Please
send an email with name, invoice id to shipping@terrasoftsolutions.com.
Please let them know that you need a new install CD.
On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:50, you wrote:
> To follow up on my own post, both the graphic custom install option
> as well as the text-based installer exhibit the python error
> problem. Neither core-dumps, though.
>
> Doing a custom install, it seems the problem is during the mounting
> after the partitioning, not the partitioning itself. The text installer
> allows continuing from the large python error dialog, but then a couple
> of seconds later pops up a small "warning" that /tmp/root/var exists.
> Continuing from the warning returns to the large python error box
> with the same /tmp/root/etc error. It cycles here until hitting the
> reset button.
>
> It does not help to delete all linux partitions and
> repartition/reformat.
>
> Suggestions for further options are eagerly solicited. Is there some
> way to break out of the installer so I could do the formatting and
> mounting by hand?
>
> The disk is a 20G ibm travelstar, if that matters. There's 384MB of
> third-party memory. Otherwise it's a standard SCSI Lombard.
>
> Thanks,
> --art
>
>
> From: Art Medlar (art-ydl-general@pigdogs.org)
> Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 12:40:03 MDT
>
> [...]
> Here's where the fun starts. Click "done" on the partition tool and
> one of two things happens:
>
> . A near-immidiate seg fault:
> ".xinitrc segmentation violation"
> Followed very quickly, too quickly to gather any more
> information, by a reboot.
>
> . Or the little formatting info box sits around for a little
> while until some large python (!!??!) error message pops up
> telling me that "/tmp/root/etc: file exists", and asking me
> to start over again. Unfortunately, none of the continue,
> quit or debug buttons work, and the only way out is the
> reset key.
--Regards, Dan Burcaw Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
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