Graphical nstallation of Beta TC4 Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta_TC4.iso fails in VirtualBox

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 22 17:58:08 UTC 2015


On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 18:31 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 03/22/2015 04:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 09:30 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > > For testing Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-22_Beta_TC4 I set 
> > > up a virtual machine in VirtualBox with a virtual 32MB video 
> > > card. After the  installer has started and set up the X, rather 
> > > early it hangs up.  Inspecting the logs I saw a hint: please 
> > > install F22 in
> > > *textmode*.  Trying that will install completely.
> > > 
> > > After installation, the F22 VM runs flawlessly in a X11 
> > > environment.
> > > 
> > > Question: is this a bug or a feature?
> > 
> > A bug, but bugs that are VBox-specific don't necessarily rate a 
> > super high priority. What exactly is this message you're seeing in 
> > the logs?
> > 
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> this happens some seconds after I activated the spoke "select  
> installation source". Because nothing happened, I selected anaconda  
> console 4 (or 3, I don't remeber), and there I see: "Pane is dead". 


'pane is dead' is an interesting one, indicates anaconda actually died 
somehow, but I don't see any indication of that in my case...I'll have 
to look again.

> So going to anaconda console 1, there I saw the message:
> "if the graphical installation interface fails to start, try again 
> with  the inst.text bootoption to start text installation" . Pls. 
> see attachments.

That's just a standard message, in fact, nothing specific to your 
case. I think it's *always* printed.
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