Rawhide/F11 install report: install fails without exception save opportunity

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 14:17 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:42 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> >> The VNC install failed quietly with the only culprit to finger being a 
> >> python assertion error:
> >>
> >> python: Modules/gcmodule.c:242: update_refs: Assertion\
> >>    `gc->gc.gc.refs == (-3)' failed.
> >>
> >> Then it simply kills the VNC and reports an installer error.
> >>
> >> i686.pae machine
> >> Radeon QD 7200 R100 video
> >> 1.5Go RAM
> >> standard PATA disks, etc.
> > 
> > At what point exactly does it fail?
> 
> That's the problem, no traceback to leave the graphical window on the 
> screen make it impossible to know.  It was after software customization 
> and during/before dependency resolution.

Silent crash during dep resolution, eh? That could be a memory problem -
either not enough RAM (unlikely - 1.5G is plenty) or bad hardware. 

Is it reproduceable? What's on the other VTs after the crash?

-w