So one of my installation attempt was to installing using text mode instead of the GUI and I observed just what they saw in the Redhat bug. My screen would roll up with RED and the rpm errors. Then it got tired of scrolling and reset the video and it would be white text...I think it was beeping too.
<br><br>The GUI hid all that. The errors showed in install.log.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andy Green</b> <<a href="mailto:andy@warmcat.com">andy@warmcat.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Tom Horsley wrote:<br>>> I always get<br>>><br>>> "db4 error run database recovery"
<br>>><br>>> this happens in various places.<br>><br>> My first reaction would be to blame the hardware :-). If you are installing from<br>> DVD or CD, you should be able to just type "memtest" (or maybe it is "memtest86")
<br>> at the prompt when you boot from CD and have it run the memory test for you<br>> to eliminate (or confirm) one possible hardware problem.<br><br>There seems to be a real fault somwhere. Joachim Frieben wrote this
<br>earlier in fedora-devel:<br><br>''The "rpm" problems reported in my previous post:<br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-October/msg00870.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-October/msg00870.html
</a><br>have also been observed by other users and have made their appearance in<br>Red Hat Bugzilla as bug #211917:<br><br> <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211917">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211917
</a> .<br><br>System freezes, corrupted rpmdb ... this is a very serious issue which makes<br>"FC6" and current "rawhide" essentially unusable on the affected systems.<br>Any ideas? ''<br><br>-Andy<br>
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