Problem installing F19 under Hercules 3.09

[Dan Horák]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:34:35 -0700 (PDT)
Ian Shorter <mcisho at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to install F19 s390x under Hercules 3.09 running on an F19
> x86_64 machine, but without success. When I had Hercules defined with
> NUMCPU 1, I usually ended up with the install in a 6-instruction
> loop. Having read elsewhere that single cpu's might be a problem,
> Hercules is now defined with NUMCPU 2, which produces different
> results.
> 
> I always get to the "Please ssh install at blah.blah.blah
> (192.168.236.200) to begin the install" message. I ssh and start the
> vncveiwer. The vncveiwer window in blank (black), although sometimes
> a grey rectangle appears, until it is closed. The ssh messages for
> the last three attempts were:-
> 
> Attempt one.
> 
> Please manually connect your vnc client to blah.blah.blah:1
> (192.168.236.200) to begin the install. [xcb] Unknown request in
> queue while dequeuing [xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded
> client and XInitThreads has not been called [xcb] Aborting, sorry
> about that. python: xcb_io.c:179: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion
> `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.
> 
> Attempts two and three
> 
> Please manually connect your vnc client to blah.blah.blah:1
> (192.168.236.200) to begin the install.
> 
> (anaconda:824): Gdk-WARNING **: anaconda: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource
> temporarily unavailable) on X server :1.
> 
> My generic.prm contains:-
> ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!0.0.0009 rd.dasd=0.0.0120
> ip=192.168.236.200:192.168.236.100:192.168.236.100:24:blah.blah.blah:ctc0:none
> rd.znet=ctc,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,protocol=0
> root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/19/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img
> nameserver=192.168.3.206 vnc
> 
> I assume the problem is a timing issue, but I don't know where to
> start looking. What info, if any, can I provide? Any suggestions
> gratefully received.

I saw similar (maybe same) crashes in the past, but need to retry with
latest Hercules and F-19. There is one guy who managed to install F-19
in Hercules, so I will ask him to post his experience here. One idea I
have now is to do an unattended installation with a kickstart file, it
could be more stable when the CPU won't spend time drawing the GUI.


		Dan