On Tue, 21 May 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0700, Halbert Thiodore wrote:
>
> > I've seen several posting regarding assertion failure (I also have that
> > problem since rh 7.2 and 7.3!!). Is it a bug or something?
>
> Yes, it is either a bug, or something [else]. It is hardware failure
> in some cases, a core VFS bug in others, an ext3 bug in others.
Hardware failure is not possible in this case because everything is smooth
under windows 98.
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> > Sometimes low-level format needs to be done if we want to do reinstallation
> > because otherwise during formatting the filesystem in graphic mode, rh will
> > prompt error msg regarding some serious problem has occur at /dev/hda#. If
> > the installation was done in text mode, you could see that in fact the
> > serious problem was the assertion failure. After that, the computer become
> > hang and the caps-lock and scroll-lock button's light on the keyboard are
> > blinking.
>
> Please tell us the exact kernel version, hardware config, and the text
> of the error. Without precise information, we can't diagnose
> problems, we can only guess.
Well.. now even worse.. low-level format doesn't do the trick anymore. Here is
the error pop up when the installation step is at copying image to harddrive
(the one after formatting the filesystem and /boot):
cpu: 0
eip: 0010 [<c0134c1>] not tainted
eflags: 00010202
eip is at (2.4.18-3)
eax: cfda0302
esi: 0000e
ds: 0018
process swapper (pid 1, stackpage = c13153000)
stack: 09000000 00000000 0000000 000000 00000000 00000002 00000000
cfda32d0 ce6cd230 0000000 ........ etc.
call trace: [<c0138765>]
[<c013924>]
[<c0137ae6>]
[<c01382bf>]
[<c013843a>]
...
...
code 66 39 43 0c 8b 7b 20 0f 85 9c 00 00 00 8b 4b 30 85 c9 0f 84
<0> Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
And the specs of the comp:
AMD K7 500 Mhz
Mem: 256 MB pc-100
HDD: Quantum Fireball 7.5 GB IDE/ATA (It's really in a fireball now :~( )
Kernel: don't remember, but it's the one comes with rh 7.3
At this moment, my comp doesn't have rh installed and it won't let me
install the OS by giving the above msg.
Halbert
