Ivan Kronkvist wrote: > I bought a new PC (Dell Dimension w/ Pentium D) and > installed Fedora 6 on it. All went fine and after the > install the system was rebooted and I was able to log > on. I then did shutdown and when I tried to boot up > the next day, the bootup process hung after enabling > disk quotas. I searched the archive and found a > similar post that suggested that the graphics wasn't > working. I rebooted with linux rescue, changed the > runlevel to 3 in inittab, and now I saw a stack trace > and a Segmentation Fault for the line in rc.sysinit > that does a rm -rf on a bunch of things in /tmp. > > I have tried to reinstall, but my original DVD didn't > work, the install got hung while resolving > dependencies of the packets I want to install. I have > downloaded Fedora 6 another 4 times and burned new > DVDs, but the installation process complains on each > of them that the DVD image is broken when I test the > DVD before starting to install. (the original DVD > passed before my initial install, but since has the > same problem when I test it.) If I try to install from > any of these DVDs, the install still hangs when > resolving packages. > > I don't know if there is a hardware problem. It seems > hard to imagine since it is a brand new PC and before > I even started install linux, I booted up with the > Windows XP that it came with and everything appeared > to be fine. However, trying to reinstall Windows XP > from the DVD I got in the purchase also fails. It > somehow hangs while booting from the DVD giving me a > blank screen. > > Any help or hints are welcome. I have installed RedHat > on numerous PC's some years ago and never had any > problems at all. Personally, if I had that much trouble I would try installing from the hard disk, if you have enough space on it. Also I'd try running in text mode, and disable selinux if the opportunity arose. I had some trouble with Anaconda and CDs in Fedora 5, but I cleaned all my CD readers and writers with a cheap lens cleaner, and didn't have the same problems with Fedora 6. However, that could perfectly well be a fluke. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
