install report 2006-07-25 - mixed results

[Mike A. Harris]

G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> The install was successful, anaconda seems in good shape at this time.
> 
> The initial reboot paniced trying to kill init!  Adding selinux=0 to the boot
> line let it continue.
> 
> Firstboot came up (without RHGB) and did not fail the soundcard module.
> However, it still hangs waiting on a subprocess that goes defunct; apparently
> it isn't getting a signal from the child process.  Even killing the X server
> it's running on doesn't cure the hang.  I had to ssh in from another machine
> to kill the firstboot process.
> 
> Things are beginning to shape up again.
> 
> Incidentally, system-config-display fails with an import error for "_gtk"
> and requires a X server kill to escape from the hung window.

There is a bug reported against system-config-display for that for a
while now which you might want to CC yourself on.  Hopefully the package
maintainer will fix it soon.

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