Hello All.

I am installing Red Hat 3.0 ES U3 on my old (2.5 years) IBM Aptiva, which used to run Win2000. Nothing special hardware-wise, just a standard IDE 20 GB hard drive and a couple of CD-ROM drives. I do have a Radeon All-In-Wonder 8500DV but that may not be germane to the discussion.

At almost the end of the installation, with only 2 or 3 packages remaining out of about 600, it hangs with the message

File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 763, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 237, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 1127, in doPostInstall
stdout = devnull)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 53, in execWithRedirect
raise RuntimeError, command + " can not be run"
RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/kudzu can not be run

I have seen some discussion threads in Red Hat's Bugzilla, but there was no resolution, they were for Red Hat 7.x, and replies seemed to consist of "check the MD5SUMS". I have checked the MD5SUMs on all four isos and they are accurate. I did see something in another linuxquestions forum, a user was installing Mandrake I think - no replies there either.

Any ideas

This is a really stupid question, but have you tried using the shell on tty2 <alt-f2>, chrooting into the install path, and running /usr/sbin/kudzu

At the very least, that will tell you if kudzu is there and can run, and also possibly some useful debug info.

If you ask me, anaconda is not that great a tool - it crashes / raises exceptions for loads of things that should be caught.

Thanks for the reply! Is there a way to avoid using anaconda when installing Red Hat ES?