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hey
i installed fedora 7 from the dvd that i downloaded from the fedora site.
Everything went nice through the installation but when i reboot
the following message comes up before loading:
"Module signature verification failed"
"insmod:error inserting '/lib/ohci-hcd.ko:key was rejected by service"
"Unable to load SELinux Policy "
and then it says panic and stops
The problem is i am trying to install either of the two versions on my p.c and none of them works grrrr.
I tried to reinstall F.7 and add the selinux=0 command but the problemas reappear before even finishing the installation.
If you can help me on this one it would be a great deal!
The usual error i encounter is " Error rpmdb : Fatal error panic!!"
I installed Fedora 8 once but not with full success , after finishing the installation some errors occured on the screen
while it was restarted which i could not read. Then i said ok lets work with that but the installation was full of problems,
yum was crushing all the time and i thing with a common error like the "rpmdb".
Is any of these problems coming from my hardware (which i thing not) because is the only way of explaining it since i tried 4-5 different
cd's and dvd's alla checked and passed through integrity tests!
Is there a way of installing either of them fully through the internet ??
The only reason I've gotten errors during any installation was because of a bad CD/DVD burn. Why don't you try burning Fedora again but at the slowest possible speed? I know it'll be time consuming, but it's worth it.
Thats why i mentioned in my previous post that i have used 4-5 different cd's .
i have burnt them in different cd-writers, i downloaded the from different mirrors, i have tried mostly everything
. I make avery time the test that says in the begining before installation and it passes it every time.
But my guess is also that is a cd-dvd problem so i will give it another 2-3 shots!
ok i tried once again and the problem still remains
I burned a couple of cd's again, and i also used an old one with which i installed fedora 7 that i am using this moment.
The problems are always around this rpmdb an the installer seems to fail.
Even with the old dvd that did not have anu problems still the same message appears.
Now i am using my old installation in an old hard drive and i have problems with yumex again with this rpm thing.
My only thought is that something remained on the old hard disk concerning this rpmdb and it causes the problem.
How could i make a full format of the hard disk using fdisk???
ok here it is againn excuse me because i am a bit rushy..
i suppose the rest of the hard drive is on /dev/sda3
because i get
[root@noname sbin]# ./fdisk /dev/sda3
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7382.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
Now can a put them together again and make a single partition for the whole thing?
And will that help with the problems with the installation??
Try the install again, choose the option to install to the entire drive. Check the created partitions... that they occupy the entire drive. Preferably use a custom scheme, create boot, swap, and root, but do not use LVM. Watch for errors.
If firstboot fails after that, boot from the DVD to rescue mode, and run "fdisk -l" to find the partitions: do they agree with what was done in anaconda? Then run fsck on each partition (except swap).
i followed your instruction and here is the result
At first the installing went ok once again but when it started rebooting it showed some error messages after leaving anaconda
which i could not see cause it was going fast,but it wasnt about rpmdb this time.
is there any log file that i can find them in???
I splited my hard disk in
/sda1 /boot 4GB
/sda2 / 70GB
/sda3 swap 2 GB
but there is always some space that remains unused about 500 MB.
Then the first boot didnt work out it freezed on
"Uncompressing Linyx....Starting the kernel"
Afterwards i rebooted from the rescue mode of the cd
i run fdisk and the partitions where correct.
then i run fsck on the two partitions and this is the result
fsck on /boot
recovering journal
clean 32/1025024 files somethin...blocks
fsck on /
recovering journal
clean bla/blabla files ....... blocks
I have a new hard disk exactly the same as before,right ou tof the box!
I start to install from one of my F7 dvds that i had before and was working.
i passed it through the test and started installing.
i splitted the disk as before
when it was about to finish it crashed on "installing the bootloader"
Ok i start a new installation with another dvd which i downloaded. Exactly the same thin happened.
Then i make an installation with the first dvd but with text mode.
I did this before because is more easy to see the error, and indeed the usual error ocured during the installation.
It said 'rpmdb-Fatal region error detected, but it still continued to install stuff and the error stayed on screen.
When it was finished this time the bootloader was installed ok.
So i rebooted, the booting failed with the mesage
"kernel panic-not syncinc:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unkniwn_block(0,0)"
Then i tried to go to rescue mode and after 2-3 tries i managed to do it.
so following your instructions again i did, fdisk and it was ok.
But the fsck command came up with different things than before:
fsck /dev/sda1 (the /boot)
/boot1 was not cleanly unmounted,check forced
pass1 : Checking inodes,blocks and sizes
pass2:Checking directory and stucture
pass3 checking directory and connectivity
pass4 cheking reference counts
pass5 checking group summary information
Then the same for the other partition
fsck /dev/sda3
/1 was not cleanly unmounted,ckeck forced
ok here is the deal:
I have a new hard disk exactly the same as before,right ou tof the box!
I start to install from one of my F7 dvds that i had before and was working.
i passed it through the test and started installing.
i splitted the disk as before
when it was about to finish it crashed on "installing the bootloader"
Ok i start a new installation with another dvd which i downloaded. Exactly the same thin happened.
Then i make an installation with the first dvd but with text mode.
I did this before because is more easy to see the error, and indeed the usual error ocured during the installation.
It said 'rpmdb-Fatal region error detected, but it still continued to install stuff and the error stayed on screen.
When it was finished this time the bootloader was installed ok.
So i rebooted, the booting failed with the mesage
"kernel panic-not syncinc:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unkniwn_block(0,0)"
Then i tried to go to rescue mode and after 2-3 tries i managed to do it.
so following your instructions again i did, fdisk and it was ok.
But the fsck command came up with different things than before:
fsck /dev/sda1 (the /boot)
/boot1 was not cleanly unmounted,check forced
pass1 : Checking inodes,blocks and sizes
pass2:Checking directory and stucture
pass3 checking directory and connectivity
pass4 cheking reference counts
pass5 checking group summary information
/1*****File system was modified**************
/1 103620/18513920 files(0,1%non-contuguous),1164711/18512904 blocks
I cant really understand if it is a matter of the dvd's or the hardware.
Then you can just copy the text over. (Above commands will need to be modified to your exact setup.)
Lastly - what is this HW?
It is possible that you happen to have one of those rare systems which confuse anaconda. Have you tried running live distros?
everything seems to work right now that i formated my hard disk through gparted!
The install is ok and everything seems to work fine
But i am still having problems with yum and yumex
Sometimes its ok and sometimes crushes GOod time!
i get the usual error rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
and i trie the usual thing with
removing the __db*
and then rpm --rebuilddb
but it doesnt rebuild it!
it crushes saying
"error: error(-30977) getting "&ãÉwo2Œ¯„M¶‹¸f½Ä±{" records from Filemd5s index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery"
and a hundred messages like this with a different part after "getting"
is there a way of reinstalling yum from the start or something like this???
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