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

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Sun Mar 22 18:17:51 UTC 2015


On 03/22/2015 06:58 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
>
For logs see: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/201182/04812314


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