CentOS 5 :: Install Crashes When Formatting Or Installing Packages?
May 15, 2009
Hardware:2x Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.26 Intel Server Board S5520UR LSI 8888ELP raid controller
Anyone gotten CentOS 5 to install on this hardware? The installer boots and partitions the drive, but either crashes during formatting of the partitions or during package installation with a kernel panic.
I've noticed this happen with every CentOS installation I've done in the past and it's confusing me. On the software template screen select, I always select "Server" and leave the extras option unchecked, I also check "Customise now". The only things I choose are the editors (to get vi), Web server and server configuration tools (and this time also Java). I didn't select any GUI programs, yet it still installs things like X, GNOME components and also samba. Why does it do that? There no way they're needed for dependencies. Is there something I'm missing when selecting the software components? Why does it still install samba when I didn't select it from under "Servers" components? Or have I misunderstood what software selection does and it installs all those components regardless but doesn't automatically turn the services on?
I have installed CENTOS 5 yesterday.uname -aLinux germany.site 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 08:53:10 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux uname -r2.6.18-164.11.1.el5xenBut when installing Oracleasm and OCFS2 packages I get the following errorrpm -ivh oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpmwarning: oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature : NO KEY, key id 1e5e0159error : Failed Dependencies : kernel-xen = 2.6.18-164.el5 is needed by oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686While installing OCFS2 I get the same error.
rpm -ivh ocfs2-2.6.18-164.el5xen-1.4.4-1.el5.i686.rpmwarning: ocfs2-2.6.18-164.el5xen-1.4.4-1.el5.i686.rpm : Header V3 DSA signature : NO KEY, key id 1e5e0159error : Failed Dependencies : kernel-xen = 2.6.18-164.el5 is needed by ocfs2-2.6.18-164.el5xen-1.4.4-1.el5.i686.rpmThis shows kernel-xen is needed. But I have already installed this kernel-xen package.rpm -q kernel-xenkernel-xen-2.6.18-164.el5.plusHow to resolve this problem ? I needed these ocfs2 and oracleasm for some oracle features.
I am trying to use Xen tools to run multiple operating systems on my machine. The problem is that when I try to install Windows (32) XP (using "hvm" build) it crashes ! It crashes after it starts copying some files (immediately after formatting) at 18%/20%). I can't see the cause of this such a crash, I know it's a crash because I told it to restart on case. Here is my configuration file:
Attempting to install CentOS 5.5 on my desktop box crashes spectacularly. (See [URL]The LiveCD does boot and appears to work, but also fills the screen with random, blinking characters early in the boot process.I was hoping I built a fairly ordinary box, so I'm surprised by this crash. It's an ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 790GX HDMI ATX AMD motherboard. Full specs here:[URL]
I'm having similar problem to someone else here in the forum (see [URL], but only with the 64 bit version of CentOS 5.5. Almost every time I try to install it, it will crash at some point in the "interactive" startup phase (but it is random). One time, I actually reached the install desktop. I did not attempt an install. I shut the machine down and the system crashed. I haven't been able to get to the install desktop since then.
I have successfully installed CentOS 5.5 32bit, however, on this same machine. In fact, I am writing this from a VM running under CentOS 5.5 32bit on this machine, and do all my work on this machine. I have since upgraded to the latest 2.6.18 kernel with PAE and latest VirtualBox; I have not experienced ANY instability at all with this machine so far. Occasionally, VirtualBox gets an error booting the client, but it has been rare and I've seen this even on older VirtualBox versions on a previous mainboard, so I am not particularly suspicious of that. It is a brand new system, only about a month old. All new parts, except for mostly unused hard drives and drive bays.
I made a network install of a new 11.4 system yesterday. It went all fine, but I was suprised that at the end of the installation some 80 packages required updating.
So what's the point in installing obsolete versions first? A significant amount of time is wasted downloading and installing packages, which will be replaced shortly thereafter. Of course that's the way it works for a media-based installation, because one does not want to create, test and release new installation media everytime a package is updated. But in network installation all it would take is to use the repository with the updated version.
The only argument I could imagine is that an updated package could make the installation fail. Installation with original packages has gonew through some QA. Well yes, of course it's all software, so everything can fail. But when you install updates into your production system there is always the theoretical risk that they contain a fatal bug causing damage. For a new installation the damage would be much smaller, should the installation fail because an untested combination of package version happens not to install cleanly.
I've recently been trying to put Centos on a PC which I have had Windows 2000 server on up until now. The system has an Intel SCSI RAID Controller which seems to be successfully detected before the graphical stage is reached. The system is fairly old now and consists of a p3 processor and 320mb of ram. However when the installer reaches the point of launching Anaconda in graphical mode it seems to start to load but then the system immediately boots itself down Quoting an Abnormal Setup Termination however gives no more details than that. I have tried changing the graphics card to no effect. I am not sure if anyone knows what could be causing the problem the media also shuld be ok as I have used it successfully on other systems.
I have been trying to figure out how to format my hard drive when I'm installing Fedora 11. When I boot from the live disk, all installation were done automatically, so I didn't see how I can do it. I tried googling it, but didn't find anything on how to do it either.
I am working on a project which targets both 32 and 64 bit architectures at the moment. My system is amd64. I added i386 architecture using this guide. However, my problem is
Code: Select allapt-get install package-name:i386
prompts the removal of currently installed packages (amd64 arch.) which is the problem.
Code: Select allReading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libportaudio0:i386
[Code] ...
Some of the packages I am talking about are
-libegl1-mesa-dev:i386 -libportaudio-dev:i386
Now, as of now, I want to carry out the compilation using 32 bit libraries, however, I really don't want to install 64bit version of all prerequisites each time I switch the compilation from 32 bit to 64. Is there any way to have both architectures at the same time?
I'd like to install a package named "pppoeconf" on my CentOS system. I try with "yum install pppoeconf" but the result is "nothing to do" (see below): It seems that I have missing repositories and I don't know which repositories are good for CentOS. How to fix my repos?
[trixbox1.localdomain yum.repos.d]# yum install pppoeconf Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories epel 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 atrpms-testing 100% |=========================| 2.2 kB 00:00 trixbox 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 trixboxaddons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 atrpms-stable 100% |=========================| 2.2 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 98 kB 00:03 148/148 Reducing RHEL 4 5 - i386 - ATrpms to included packages only Finished Reducing RHEL 4 5 - i386 - ATrpms to included packages only Finished Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do [trixbox1.localdomain yum.repos.d]#
I would like to do a base install of centos 5.3 (using the net install cd) and when I go and basically deselect all the packages it wants to install -- it goes ahead and installs them anyways. How do I go about preventing this?
I basically just want to be able to run XFree86 on one of my clients and have networking support. Does anyone know what packages I need to add in my ks.cfg to meet this requirement?
I installed win 7 and Linux Mint, however I've now decided to uninstall both and start with a fresh hdd. Anyway formatting went fine and started installing win 7 however there was a reading error from cd and canceled. Now ever time I try and start my pc it comes up with error: unknown filesystem and the grub rescue prompt. Now I don't know what to do as i can't seem to get around this and back to win 7 installer.
I am using CentOS 5.4 dvd to install. What I need is to be able to create a partition with GUI (it's druid, maybe) without formatting it. I remeber once there was a check into creating new partition form, but maybe i am confusing with fedora or other distros. Is there a way to complete job using GUI or should i create partitions: / /boot and swap with GUI and the others with fdsik?
I make a new msdos partition (msdos) with Parted for data exchange with Windows. owner group is root (Parted requires root to work), but owner user is my current user. so neither can change permissions. I can't change partition label, too.
Ok so I am doing a fresh install of 5.3 .... At the begning of the install after i get into it a get a screen that says "What type of media contais the packages to be installed?" with options... Local CDROM, HD, NFS Imahes, FTP, HTTP.I have a LG GH22NP20 that installed 5.2 fine on the system..... And can load the cd....?>
As I recent convert from Ubuntu to Centos, I have a lot to learn. In Ubuntu, I can plug in a memory stick, run the menu option: System/Adminstration/Partition Manager, highlight the memory stick and choose "Format: Encrypt"
In Centos, my memory stick is /dev/sdc1, how do I, using command line: format it as /ext3, encrypt it using cryptsetup, and set a password?
I'm having an issue with formatting the HDDs during the CentOS 5.5 installation.I've set up a hardware RAID1 with 2TB HDDs using FastTrack TX4650 (http:url... as a RAID controller.Then I tried to install CentOS 5.5 32-bit version using this configuration. I preloaded the required RAID drivers for the CentOS and started the installation. Everything went fine until the part where the CentOS formats the HDD - it took 12 hours and the process still goes on. I cannot determine whether the install process is stuck or the HDD is still being formatted.how long the formatting should take considering the above mentioned configuration?
when I try to install anything using the Ubuntu software centre, I get the following message Requires installation of untrusted packages The action would require the installation of packages from not authenticated sources.
Whenever I do sudo apt-get or use the Ubuntu Software Center, I can't download anything because a message comes up saying "Action requires installation of untrusted packages: The action would require the installation of packages from not authenticated sources." I've been trying to download GIMP and Thunderbird, so... I dunno what the problem is.
I just upgraded from 11.2 to 11.4 and the installation/upgrade worked just perfect. I than followed the instructions in the "New User How To/FAQ", "Multimedia and restricted format" post. I was following the instruction in the 11.4 section. I added the additional repositories as explained. I then was on the section where it talks about going into software management and selecting the "Packman" repository and clicking to "switch systems packages" to the versions in this repository (packman). I than click this link and the "warning" screen appears and I am present with conflict resolution after conflict resolution dialog. It just seems that there are some many conflicts, it just seems wrong and I canceled.
The installation/upgrade appears to have worked just fine. My mail is there, audio and dvd play back worked the first try after the upgrade. I am not clear if this is what I should expect or their is something wrong or if I even need to complete this step for a successfully installation.
im using fedora 14 and i have a slow internet connection. i want 2 install some packages from the fedora 14 dvd instead of downloading from internet using add/remove packages. i tried to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo but it dint work.
I am using CentOS 5 with a couple extra repos; KDE, RPMforge, adobe and a repo provided by Mike A. Harris which has very new Firefox(3.6.3) and other packages. Understandably I am using an, at press time, unsupported version of Firefox. (I use updated packages at Adobe, KDE, and of Firefox for bleeding edge media support and website testing)
Most sites are working fine, including all sites that I have tried at the www.centos.org domain. Wikipedia, Pandora, AOL Mail, Dell, Facebook, Hulu, Google, Linksys, all of the other sites I have built and many more seem to work fine. When directing Firefox to anything on the CentOS wiki X seems to crash (the screen goes blank for a second, it flashes a Console login such as found at ctrl+alt+F1 and the gives me the X login screen) running services are un-interrupted, but all GUI programs close (Firefox and OpenOffice do recover data). I was running yum from a console and it was not interrupted.
Has anyone else had this issue with a newer version of Firefox? Again it is only seeming to affect the CentOS wiki. Not a worry since I only use the wiki for reference configuring my machine, and Konqueror browses it just fine. Anything I should do to help developers and other users? Bug reports? Ideas on how to fix it?