The Monday 2004-08-30 at 12:27 -0400, Michael Young wrote:
message and start installing. The system moves along, installing the packages and reporting progress for a random amount of time and then hangs (I made several attempts and it is a different package each time). The keyboard and mouse are locked up, so I cannot change to a different terminal window to check for possible error messages.
Version 8.1 had a kernel bug that caused it to crash randomly, when using reiser partitions. You had to activate option "barrier=none" on those partitions in the fstab file (impossible during install), or install certain patched kernel. I don't remember the versions, but if you can grepmail this list archive (not on the suse server, certainly) for "barrier=none" you will find the pertinent messages at the time. [...] I found a few threads for you, around jan 2003: X-Message-Number-for-archive: 131333 Subject: Re: [SLE] Install Hangs X-Message-Number-for-archive: 132396 Subject: Re: [SLE] Install hangs keyboard blinks? X-Message-Number-for-archive: 132573 Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.1 Install X-Message-Number-for-archive: 133030 Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.1 freezing up random times
I tried 8.2 previously and became fed up with the continuous stream of file dependency warnings and failed RPM installs (with little to know detail in the error messages).
That shouldn't be... if you are installing from the dvd/cds, a new install, there can not be dependency problems. Or... are you updating?
Setup: Partitioning - 10GB ReiserFS for /, 96GB ReiserFS for /home, the balance for
You could install on ext2/3. After you get the patches from YOU, you can change to reiser if you like. The bug affects only reiserfs, with unpatched kernel. Or install from FTP... I'm unsure if the ftp server contains the primitive version, or the latest. In any case, your problem was very much talked about on this list at the time. Search it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson