[Mageia-dev] Fresh install loops in mkinitrd

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
Wed Dec 21 21:02:32 CET 2011


In today's cauldron, a fresh install loops in the bootloader stage 
because something has suddenly decided that it knows when stuff is 
taking too long.

VC3 shows "ERROR: killing runaway process 
(process=mkinitrd.....error=ALARM at /usr/lib/libDrakx/run_program.pm 
line 92"

In the GUI, you get a graphical prompt saying that an error occurred and 
mkinitrd failed, and if you click OK (the only choice), it goes and 
tries the mkinitrd again, fails again, .....

So, basically, the install stops there, as you can't get to Summary.


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