Topic: 4.1.2 install fails

[Stephan Goeldi]

I am trying to install the 4.1.2 over a failed upgrade from 4.1.1.

I want to replace the existing file systems and install the clean 4.1.2.
The installation breaks after about the half packages and tells me "received int 11 signal" or something similar.

It unmounts everything and tells me, that it is safe now to reboot.

What's the problem?

By the way: Did anybody ever happen to succeed with upgrading a Linux box? I tried it with SuSE (from 6.4 to 7.0), RedHat (from 6.2 to 7.0) and now with E-Smith (4.1.1 to 4.1.2). None of all the upgraded versions worked anymore. Could it be, that the usability of "upgrading linux" is not first priority?

[Charlie Brady]

Stephan Goeldi wrote:

> By the way: Did anybody ever happen to succeed with upgrading
> a Linux box? I tried it with SuSE (from 6.4 to 7.0), RedHat
> (from 6.2 to 7.0) and now with E-Smith (4.1.1 to 4.1.2). None
> of all the upgraded versions worked anymore. Could it be,
> that the usability of "upgrading linux" is not first priority?

I can assure you that e-smith would not support in-place upgrading if we did not think that it worked reliably. I have upgraded many, many linux systems, RedHat since version 3.0.1, and e-smith since version 3.1.

"Signal 11" usually means a hardware problem, or a corrupted program or bad CDROM.

Charlie

[Stephan Goeldi]

> "Signal 11" usually means a hardware problem, or a corrupted
> program or bad CDROM.

The bad CDROM seems to be the problem in my case. The CDROM is normally readable. What is the suggested method to check a freshly burned CDROM? I burned the ISO image with Nero using "disk-at-once".

Wouldn't it be nice to automatically perform a CDROM media check while upgrading, before the corrupted media destroys the e-smith installation?

[Alejandro]

In your case the problem is nero!
search the phorum
Alejandro

[Stephan Goeldi]

> In your case the problem is nero!
> search the phorum

I think the problem is not nero but a wrong setting inside of Nero. I used to burn the 4.0, 4.1 and 4.1.1 ISO's with Nero without problems. But probably I was setting a wrong option (there are a lot):

(X) Data Mode 1
(  ) Data Mode 2

(  ) Raw Data

(X) Blocksize 2048
(  ) Blocksize 2352

(X) Disk-at-once

Did I set anything wrong?

[Alejandro]

You should search the phorums about certain trouble using nero's software I'm sure It was discused many times before.
A.

[Stephan Goeldi]

> You should search the phorums

I already did a search for "nero". There is nothing specific.
I understand that this is not an e-smith problem, but a general topic about burning ISO's the correct way.

[Gordon Rowell]

See www.e-smith.org/docs/howto The CD burner software details are contributed instructions. If they are not correct, please let documentation@e-smith.com know.
 
The Nero site also suggests that older versions had a bug burning various types of ISO images.

Gordon