Bug 129947

Summary:	VMware: Hardware configuration will never finish
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Magnus Boman <mboman>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Martin Vidner <mvidner>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	As per request

Description Magnus Boman 2005-10-21 10:06:07 UTC

When installing SL10.1Alpha2 in VMware 5.0/GSX3.2, the last step, hardware
configuration, never finishes.
Restarting the machine in this state leads to incomplete X configuration.

Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2005-10-21 10:10:40 UTC

Please, attach y2log (http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST)

Comment 2 Magnus Boman 2005-10-21 10:22:21 UTC

Created attachment 55055 [details]
As per request

Comment 3 Ladislav Slezák 2005-10-21 14:17:23 UTC

The last lines in the log are:

2005-10-21 19:22:20 <1> linux(3805) [YCP] network/complex.ycp:65 Devs=$[]
2005-10-21 19:22:20 <1> linux(3805) [YCP] network/complex.ycp:66 Hardware=[]

So it seems that it hangs in the network configuration.

The bug might be related to bug #129946

Comment 4 Magnus Boman 2005-10-21 21:12:10 UTC

I did a minimal installation, text only, and that worked.

Comment 5 Magnus Boman 2005-10-23 01:27:52 UTC

Did some more research. Installing again in Text mode.

When the install reaches the "Release Notes", i switched to the console and run: fc-cache --force, then back to the installation and go next (Hardware Configuration). SaX starts and tries to configure my GUI settings. After that nothing more happens. Going to the console again and check processes with ps aux. Found that the command "/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/sax/init.pl --quite no" will never finish. After killing the process, the installation continues. Probes for TV Cards (which throws an error, but I think this is a known issues as well). After that, the button Next becomes enabled. Still have the text "Analyzing your system" instead of showing proposals. Clicking next and get a dialog box "Configuration saved. There were errors". Then get the next screen "Installation completed". Click finish. The GUI wont start so off to run fc-config --force and SaX2. Then install vmware tools. GUI will now work.

Comment 6 Eddie Kukiela 2005-11-13 07:58:48 UTC

I am having this exact problem, except my situation is without VMware. What I had done is run SUSE Linux (10.1 Alpha2), under failsafe, which can be selected from the GRUB menu, logged in under my root account, and ran 'fc-cache --force' (without the quotes). After I rebooted, my system was fine.

Comment 7 Martin Vidner 2005-11-14 10:17:56 UTC

Magnus, the original report seems to be a duplicate of bug 133641.
Comment 5 and comment 6 are another problem, bug 128080.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133641 ***