Re: Live image installation fails to recognize existing LVM volumes

2016-01-12 Thread Mike Wright
On 01/12/2016 11:04 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: I attempted to install the KDE live image for Fedora 23 and found that the installer would not recognize existing LVM logical volumes. It the past (Fedora 21), I was able to select existing LVM volumes from the "unknown" list and cause the OS to be

Re: Live image installation fails to recognize existing LVM volumes

2016-01-12 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/12/2016 11:04 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: I attempted to install the KDE live image for Fedora 23 and found that the installer would not recognize existing LVM logical volumes. It the past (Fedora 21), I was able to select existing LVM volumes from the "unknown" list and cause the OS to be

Live image installation fails to recognize existing LVM volumes

2016-01-12 Thread Emmett Culley
I attempted to install the KDE live image for Fedora 23 and found that the installer would not recognize existing LVM logical volumes. It the past (Fedora 21), I was able to select existing LVM volumes from the "unknown" list and cause the OS to be installed on existing LVM logical volumes. No

Re: Fedora 19 installation fails at "installing bootloader"

2013-07-04 Thread Andre Robatino
Emmett Culley webengineer.com> writes: > I can say for sure that this time I found the installation UI (anaconda?) not only easy to use, but pretty darn > good looking as well. Of course, like many on this list I also found it to be less flexible when selecting > what I want installed. Like you

Fedora 19 installation fails at "installing bootloader"

2013-07-04 Thread Emmett Culley
Yesterday I installed Fedora 19 on my workstation. I skipped Fedora 18 entirely as the installation GUI didn't give me any confidence I could do my usual thing. My usual thing is to install each new version into different logical volumes than the current OS. In this case the current OS was in

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 00:45 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > You've tested the DVD an you've tested memory and all appears > fine. > > Now, I'm not saying this is the problem but years back I had a > > similar situation. I had burned the DVD with the speed set to > > "auto". I burned a seco

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/02/13 07:45, Patrick Dupre wrote: > There is one bizard thing is that, I am now getting some > read I/O errors on sr0 and it sometime even fails to load the DVD!!! > So I am testing again the DVD > The DVD has not been burned with the same reader that I am using for > the install. Is it a pro

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting sam, 02 mar 2013 Ed Greshko : On 03/02/13 04:33, Patrick Dupre wrote: I check the DVD (PASSED), but I get a random error when installing hwdata or filesystem! You've tested the DVD an you've tested memory and all appears fine. Now, I'm not saying this is the problem but years b

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/02/13 04:33, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I check the DVD (PASSED), but I get a random error when installing > hwdata or filesystem! You've tested the DVD an you've tested memory and all appears fine. Now, I'm not saying this is the problem but years back I had a similar situation. I had

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/01/2013 02:09 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Test passed: No errors!!! Excellent! As I used to tell people when I did tech support on the phone, much of my job consists of going down one blind ally after another until one of them isn't. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Joe Zeff : On 03/01/2013 01:11 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I have 8 Go of RAM on x86_64 brand new machine. The hardware is a Z77-G41 (MSI) with an i5 It regular fails after the installation of 4 or 6 packages!!! I know that it's unlikely, but it can't hurt to rule out t

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Roger : Maybe it's a faulty download. I would that it is so, but I checked twice the DVD (on 2 different machine) and I checked the checksum. So what else? I am testing the memory (right now 65% passed). I have both a dvd and usb installer both images downloaded week

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Roger
Maybe it's a faulty download. I have both a dvd and usb installer both images downloaded weeks apart, which I have used on a number of machines and all worked well, If I had a gripe with Fedora 18 it would be that it now takes 5 seconds longer to boot than it did a month ago but it's clearly 40

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Joe Zeff : On 03/01/2013 01:11 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I have 8 Go of RAM on x86_64 brand new machine. The hardware is a Z77-G41 (MSI) with an i5 It regular fails after the installation of 4 or 6 packages!!! I know that it's unlikely, but it can't hurt to rule out t

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Patrick O'Callaghan : On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 22:11 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > What's Your hardware? Have You sufficient amount of RAM? I wasn't > able install > F18 i686 on PC with 1.25GB RAM and symptoms was similar. x86_64 version will > have even bigger requirement

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/01/2013 01:11 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I have 8 Go of RAM on x86_64 brand new machine. The hardware is a Z77-G41 (MSI) with an i5 It regular fails after the installation of 4 or 6 packages!!! I know that it's unlikely, but it can't hurt to rule out the possibility: run memtest86 and mak

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 22:11 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > What's Your hardware? Have You sufficient amount of RAM? I wasn't > > able install > > F18 i686 on PC with 1.25GB RAM and symptoms was similar. x86_64 > version will > > have even bigger requirements. > > Due to it's memory requirements

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Frantisek Hanzlik : Patrick Dupre wrote: Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Frantisek Hanzlik : Patrick Dupre wrote: Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Matthew Miller : On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Fresh fedora 18 installation fails. How can I

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Frantisek Hanzlik : > >> Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> >>> Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Matthew Miller : >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>>>&g

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Frantisek Hanzlik : Patrick Dupre wrote: Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Matthew Miller : On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Fresh fedora 18 installation fails. How can I get a log file? This depends to some degree how and where it is

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Matthew Miller : > >> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> Fresh fedora 18 installation fails. >>> How can I get a log file? >> >> This depends to some degree how and whe

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Matthew Miller : On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Fresh fedora 18 installation fails. How can I get a log file? This depends to some degree how and where it is failing. Can you be more specific? Error Message: There was an error

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting ven, 01 mar 2013 Matthew Miller : On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Fresh fedora 18 installation fails. How can I get a log file? This depends to some degree how and where it is failing. Can you be more specific? Is there is a log fiel it would be

Re: fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Fresh fedora 18 installation fails. > How can I get a log file? This depends to some degree how and where it is failing. Can you be more specific? -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ -- users mailing list

fresh installation fails

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Fresh fedora 18 installation fails. How can I get a log file? Thank -- == Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@kegtux.org Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère Université du Lit

Re: installation fails

2012-07-30 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:44 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Probably more important to the user is some sort of spinner, a sign of > life, indicating that the installer is still working on something. I hate those things. Quite apart from being visually annoying animations, I'm sick of staring at

Re: installation fails

2012-07-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.07.2012, Tim wrote: > Are they slow computers? I don't remember the machines I installed for others. As I wrote before, I installed an AMD quadcore with 3.6GHz and 8 GB RAM with WD Scorpio Black harddrives, which I consider as reasonably fast, and it paused about 20 min. > Have you i

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/29/2012 07:33 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 29.07.2012, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> Would be easy to submit a bug report or RFE. > > Jepp, I'll do. > >> There's one bug report already that complains about a missing Estimated >> Time value, but I

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/29/2012 03:59 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: The progress bar calculation would need to become very elegant, however, to not be degraded to Windows style installers, where it jumps back to 0%, then moves to 100% again, only to restart from 0% an unknown number of times. That may be good as a s

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:42:56 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> I started using Fedora starting with Constantine & the hang always seems >> to happen at 'selinux-policy-targeted' which is understandable when >> using preupgrade

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:38:06 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 12:59 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > The progress bar calculation would need to become very elegant, > > however, to not be degraded to Windows style installers, where it > > jumps back to 0%, then moves to 100% again, only

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 12:59 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > The progress bar calculation would need to become very elegant, > however, to not be degraded to Windows style installers, where it > jumps back to 0%, then moves to 100% again, only to restart from 0% an > unknown number of times. That m

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 09:33 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > I have installed F17 on several different machines, and that "hang" > occured in all of the installations, lasting clearly 15-20 min. Obvious questions: Are they slow computers? Have you installed everything but the kitchen sink? Are

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Depending on system speed. That's not a "hang", but the package scripts > being busy working on something. Look what it does: > rpm -q --scripts selinux-policy-targeted It took around 20 min on an AMD quadcore 3.6 GHZ with 8 GB RAM and WD Scorpio Black ha

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I started using Fedora starting with Constantine & the hang always seems > to happen at 'selinux-policy-targeted' YES! Now that you are writing it, I remember. Here it "stops". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Would be easy to submit a bug report or RFE. Jepp, I'll do. > There's one bug report already that complains about a missing Estimated > Time value, but I could not find a ticket specifically covering the final > Verification step of all installed packag

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:42:56 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I started using Fedora starting with Constantine & the hang always seems > to happen at 'selinux-policy-targeted' which is understandable when > using preupgrade but it happens also on a clean install which I did from > 15 -> 16. > > It's u

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:33:34 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > >> This behaviour is clearly a bug. Not because it takes so long time, >> but because the user isn't informed and waits speculating about what >> went wrong and when t

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:33:34 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > This behaviour is clearly a bug. Not because it takes so long time, > but because the user isn't informed and waits speculating about what > went wrong and when to push the reset-button. http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/anaconda Would be easy

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:05:02 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > On 07/29/2012 05:38 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > > From my point of view: I saw this rather long final installation phase > > too (I guess about 15 min). Not only in F17 but in F16 too, and I > > don't know what exactly happens during

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 07/29/2012 05:38 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: From my point of view: I saw this rather long final installation phase too (I guess about 15 min). Not only in F17 but in F16 too, and I don't know what exactly happens during this time. It is time spent (mostly) running the %postinstall scrips for

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Joachim Backes
On 07/29/2012 10:09 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/29/2012 03:33 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 29.07.2012, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> The last phase of the installation takes a fair amount of time. >>> It "seems" to hang and do nothing. I didn't time it, but I feel it >>> was more than 5 minutes. >>

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/29/2012 03:33 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 29.07.2012, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> The last phase of the installation takes a fair amount of time. >> It "seems" to hang and do nothing. I didn't time it, but I feel it >> was more than 5 minutes. > I have installed F17 on several different machines

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Ed Greshko wrote: > The last phase of the installation takes a fair amount of time. > It "seems" to hang and do nothing. I didn't time it, but I feel it > was more than 5 minutes. I have installed F17 on several different machines, and that "hang" occured in all of the installati

Re: installation fails

2012-07-28 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/29/2012 09:59 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I failed several times to install fedora. > > It seems to be caused by the sleeping of the DVD reader. > > How can I awake it up? > > It stops to run typically during the configuration of the ins

Re: installation fails

2012-07-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/29/2012 09:59 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I failed several times to install fedora. > It seems to be caused by the sleeping of the DVD reader. > How can I awake it up? > It stops to run typically during the configuration of the installation. I just did a fresh install of F17 x64 on HP hardwa

installation fails

2012-07-28 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I failed several times to install fedora. It seems to be caused by the sleeping of the DVD reader. How can I awake it up? It stops to run typically during the configuration of the installation. Thank. -- == Patrick DUPR