I am trying to install Fedora 7 and it always hangs when it is preparing to install the packages (after it has formatted the filesystems and done package dependency checking). The last thing appearing in the anaconda log file is: ... self.hostname = ..... moving (1) to step installpackages Preparing to install packages The system itself is NOT locked up. I can interact with the shell process, access the files on the DVD (/mnt/source) as well as the files on the newly formatted hard drives (/mnt/sysimage). However the parent anaconda process (the one forked off by /sbin/loader) though consumes 100% of the CPU while apparently making no progress (I let it sit this way for 12 hours!) No other processes are obviously consuming CPU. I can 'kill -STOP' and 'kill -CONT' the process and it changes states, so it doesn't appear to be a kernel lock or anything like that. There are no "yum" or "rpm" processes showing up in the process list. This is a 32-bit single CPU AMD Athlon XP 3200 (2200 MHz) with 1 GB RAM. It has two SATA WD Raptor hard drives. They are not set up in RAID, but the VolGroup00 is set to span both of them. How can I best determine what it is doing or why it won't complete? Is there a way to put it in a super-debug mode, or some other logs, etc, that I should be looking at? Thanks Deron Meranda
