fc2 install disaster

[Jeff Vian]

Phil Schaffner wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 06:52 -0500, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>>I've just spent quite a while trying to get FC2 installed and in the end had
>>>to revert to FC1. The install logs show that some packages installed fine
>>>but others didn't. Doing an "everything" install, the first 1 to fail is
>>>glibc and the log looks like
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>>>Installing glibc-2.3.2-101.i686.
>>>error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-101) scriptlet failed, exit status 115
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>>>I ended up with a system with no glibc and no kernel!
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>>I would say it is a hardware problem. Check your RAM - run memtest86.
>>If
>>you overclocked your system in any way, undo it.
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>>Alexander
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>Good advice.  If that doesn't work...
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>>>I don't think it's a disk space problem as the log shows lots of other 
>>>packages that do install, however I only had about 400M for / (with /var,
>>>/usr/ and /home their own partitions) and 100M for /boot, I would have
>>>thought this was enough...
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>>>I was using LVM, which caused me lots of trouble. In fact I got 2 stack
>>>traces from Anaconda but I didn't have a floppy to save them on.
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>LVM has been problematic:
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>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119975
>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125405
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>Either of these sound relevant?
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>I'd start fresh and try letting anaconda partition with a workstation or
>server install.  Having separate /, /var, and /usr can cause problems
>with running out of space even when there is free space available on the
>other partitions, as well as possibly being less efficient than a
>single / if they are all on the same physical disk.  Usually just
>have /, /boot, and /home (preferably on a separate physical disk) with a
>large separate chunk of shared storage mounted elsewhere - optional.
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A bit OT, but your partitioning may lead to other problems.

/var holds the databases, web site, mail, dns, news, and much other very 
important data for your servers.  I ALWAYS put /var on a separate 
partition so the data it contains can be easily recovered during a 
restore/reload, just as the data in /home.

>Phil
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