https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832737
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--- Comment #5 from Felix Miata 2013-08-02 02:51:27 UTC ---
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manually collected installation logs: /var/log/YaST2/ and /var/log/zypp/
I'm still not entirely convinced this is 100% a hardware problem. I ran memtest
4.10 192 minutes with 0 errors on the repaired power supply. Then I did a HTTP
factory-snapshot E17 installation. Everything went apparently well until the
last package was installed, then the installation GUI spontaneously exited and
the ncurses failure message appeared. I then rebooted to 12.3 and mounted the
aborted 13.1 /. No logs were written to /root/inst-sys. No X log was written
anywhere I've found.
Last week I found a bad cap on another motherboard. I replaced 10 of the 13 it
had of that brand and type, which was all I had in stock. This motherboard has
more than a dozen of that same brand and type, and most likely same vintage.
None are obviously bad, but I'm going to buy more and then replace these before
doing any more follow-up on this bug, unless someone from the zypp team has
suggestions for other things to do first.
All that said, I do have one idea. This has never happened to me in all the
years of using openSUSE and SuSE before it, but I wonder if something related
to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680508 is happening here. I also
had the same trouble with Mandriva and likely Mandrake before it, but its bug
DB is no longer available. Such trouble appeared only on certain combinations
of hardware and software, and was far far short of ubiquitous. Virtually all my
/ partitions, as here, are smallish, usually 4.8G, and use a 1024 blocksize to
minimize sector overhang waste. Has there been a compiler change for building
zypper, libzypp and/or rpm in recent weeks?
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