Fedora 40 virtual machine

[Paolo Galtieri]

I tried to create a Fedora 40 virtual machine under VMware version 
17.0.2.  The ISO image boots up fine, but when I double click on the 
"Install to drive" It will often fail withe the following error:

Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file 
already exists. Anaconda is already running, or a previous instance of 
anaconda has crashed.

I may have to try several times before I can install it to the drive.

When it finishes installation and I click on "Finish Installation" 
nothing happens.  I expect it to say reboot system, but it does 
nothing.  I reboot manually and when it comes back up it initially says 
"Initial setup" but then the screen flashes and the login prompt appears.

Paolo

[Joe Zeff]

On 4/23/24 11:44, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>  Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file 
>  already exists. Anaconda is already running, or a previous instance of 
>  anaconda has crashed.
>
>  I may have to try several times before I can install it to the drive. 

Have you tried deleting that file before trying again?

[Paolo Galtieri]

anaconda seems to run even after displaying the popup about unable to 
create the pid file.  I tried the install under VirtualBox and I didn't 
see the anaconda error. However, again the install did not complete 
because after rebooting manually it still booted off the ISO rather than 
from disk.

Paolo

On 4/23/24 11:01, Joe Zeff wrote:
>  On 4/23/24 11:44, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> > Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the file 
> > already exists. Anaconda is already running, or a previous instance 
> > of anaconda has crashed.
> >
> > I may have to try several times before I can install it to the drive.
>
>
>  Have you tried deleting that file before trying again?
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Hi

I've tried it to day with a virtualbox VM.
Got the same result.
Solved unmounting the iso image then booting from disk.

Angelo




On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:00:27 -0700
Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  anaconda seems to run even after displaying the popup about unable to
>
>  create the pid file.  I tried the install under VirtualBox and I
>  didn't see the anaconda error. However, again the install did not
>  complete because after rebooting manually it still booted off the ISO
>  rather than from disk.
>  
>  Paolo
>  
>  On 4/23/24 11:01, Joe Zeff wrote:
>  >
>  > On 4/23/24 11:44, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>  >> Anaconda is unable to create /var/run/anaconda.pid because the
>  >> file already exists. Anaconda is already running, or a previous
>  >> instance of anaconda has crashed.
>  >>
>  >> I may have to try several times before I can install it to the
>  >> drive.
>  >
>  >
>  > Have you tried deleting that file before trying again?
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[Samuel Sieb]

On 4/23/24 12:00, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>  anaconda seems to run even after displaying the popup about unable to
>
>  create the pid file.  I tried the install under VirtualBox and I didn't 
>  see the anaconda error. However, again the install did not complete 
>  because after rebooting manually it still booted off the ISO rather than 
>  from disk. 
Isn't that something you have to set in virtualbox?

[Barry Scott]

>  On 23 Apr 2024, at 18:44, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  
>  I tried to create a Fedora 40 virtual machine under VMware version 17.0.2.  
Often VMware and VirtualBox need to do an update to support newer linux kernels.
Maybe that is part of the problem here? Do you see claims of support for the 6.8 kernel?

Barry