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FS#15903 - Arch 2009.08 installer crashes when formatting filesystem

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Opened by Kalpik Nigam (kalpik) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 14:34 GMT
Last edited by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 15:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Gerhard Brauer (GerBra)
Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.08
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi!

After i partition my disks, and select the filesystem for various partitions, the installer crashes while creating the filesystem.

It succesfully formats /boot (with ext2) but when it's formatting my / (ext4), it just crashes. I get a whole lot of random gibberish like many general protection errors. And after that, the console hangs, and i have to do a hard reset.

My /boot is a primary partition, and my / is inside a logical partition, if that helps.
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Closed by  Gerhard Brauer (GerBra)
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 15:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Kalpik Nigam (kalpik) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 14:50 GMT
Ok, now on another try, i got past the filesystem screen, and it crashed while installing packages. I'm attaching a pic for your reference.

http://www.imgx.org/public/view/full/18279
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 14:58 GMT
Sounds for me like a hardware problem. Is this a new PC or have you or do you use the same PC already without problems?
Maybe it's woth to do a longer (hours) memory check, also look if all HD cables are good.

Was your second try also with ext4 as root FS? Could you try a test with ex. ext3 as FS for /, so maybe we could see if we got further....
Comment by Kalpik Nigam (kalpik) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 15:05 GMT
I was using this PC sine about a year now.. Anyway, let me double check all cables etc.
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 15:09 GMT
Have you used also kernel 2.6.30 on this machine before?
Comment by Kalpik Nigam (kalpik) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 15:37 GMT
Ok, removing and reinserting the RAM modules fixed the issue! Thanks for your support, and sorry for the spurious bug report :(
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 15:43 GMT
Better to find (and fix the problem) then living with corrupted data for a long time ;-)

(BTW: *This* solution is fewer work for us... <g>)

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