** Reply to message from "Alleman, Lowell" on Tue, 14 May 2002 10:41:20 -0400 ** I had a problem with the second phase of the installer (when it does the ** reboot). Apparently, it died midway, and I was forced to reboot manually. ** When the system came back up, I was dropped at the console. It appears that ** this happed because the LVM configuration was not loaded properly because of ** some module issues. I ran depmod, did a quick test or two, rebooted, and ** the installation continued without any other problems. ** ** I've only tried this on a single machine which is fairly old, and has had ** some weird issues in the past. (I keep running memory checks, but so far ** nothing has shown up). boy, this sounds like some probs I had ( not w/ 8.0 but earlier ) turned out to be a random power supply prob. But that isn't something you can test for unless you have a lot of computer test equipment and a desire to be glowing in the dark, right before you permanently step off this planet for the great beyond! I supose you could swap it for one in another box that is running w/o errors ... but this isn't something I'd attempt ... OTH.. if you have few skills for self preservation ... you might <G> j don't use the "reply to" it's a spam filter. Mailto jfweber at bellsouth dot net w/ standard formatting please SuSE 8.0 & Polarbar mail program afterthought How do you pronounce my name? With reverence.

The only problem I've found with the LVM is if the disk has an existing lvm setup on it, which you are trying to overwrite. When i try this, it normally fails to create the new logical volumes. Other than that, everything is fine. Ewan On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:41, Alleman, Lowell wrote:

Has anyone had any problems with YaST2 crashing on them when they are trying to install new packages? Or had problems with installing LVM on a new install of SuSE?

I had a problem with the second phase of the installer (when it does the reboot). Apparently, it died midway, and I was forced to reboot manually. When the system came back up, I was dropped at the console. It appears that this happed because the LVM configuration was not loaded properly because of some module issues. I ran depmod, did a quick test or two, rebooted, and the installation continued without any other problems.