The GTK+ installer fails with: "Install Failed Your install has failed for one of noumerous reasons. You can find ..." My partitioning scheme is rather messy, with noumerous other OSs installed. Manually partitioned with fdisk, logical partitions on hdb. Prepped partitions with mke2fs, mkswap. Only anomality up to the install failed was that I had to switch from ati to vesa driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to bring up X11. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot LiveCD 2008-0 beta1 2.Start installer 3.Partitioning: /dev/hdb5 200M ext2 /boot, /dev/hdb6 55G ext3 /, /dev/hdb7 1G swap 4. Start installer, fails rather late in the process. Actual Results: Contents of /var/log/installer.log.failed: GLI: April 08 2008 20:17:00 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.6.3 GLI: April 08 2008 20:23:20 - Mounted mountpoint: / GLI: April 08 2008 20:23:20 - Created mountpoint /boot GLI: April 08 2008 20:23:20 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:21 - Stage3 was generated successfully GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:21 - Chroot environment ready. GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of the normal install errors. The error was: '[Errno 5] Input/output error' GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run func() GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 579, in install_portage_tree GLIUtility.fetch_and_unpack_tarball(portage_tree_snapshot_uri, self._chroot_dir + "/usr/", self._chroot_dir + "/", cc=self._cc) GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 564, in fetch_and_unpack_tarball if not get_uri(tarball_uri, temp_directory + "/" + tarball_filename, cc): GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 475, in get_uri shutil.copy(r_file, path) GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 81, in copy copyfile(src, dst) GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 49, in copyfile copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst) GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 22, in copyfileobj buf = fsrc.read(length) GLI: April 08 2008 20:38:38 - IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error Expected Results: Installation finishing normally, installing grub/lilo, and hopefully being able to boot. Mail me if there is anything in perticular you want me to do that could help solve the problem. Various information on the machine I was trying to install on: livecd docs # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS965 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 47) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 190 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 00:05.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 182 SATA/RAID Controller (rev 01) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge 00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530LE [Radeon X1600/X1650 PRO] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530LE [Radeon X1650 PRO] (Secondary) livecd docs # cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/interrupts processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 44 model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2004.582 cache size : 256 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good pni lahf_lm bogomips : 4010.60 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc CPU0 0: 783937 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 7356 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 8 IO-APIC-edge serial 6: 5 IO-APIC-edge floppy 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 166638 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 30824 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 2905 IO-APIC-edge ide1 17: 75461 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_sis, eth1 18: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi SiS SI7012 19: 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0 20: 18 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2 21: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3 22: 87 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb4 23: 56994 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1 NMI: 0 LOC: 783905 ERR: 0 livecd docs # uname -a Linux livecd 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Mon Mar 31 02:05:22 UTC 2008 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux livecd docs # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2010 1392 618 0 183 863 -/+ buffers/cache: 345 1665 Swap: 0 0 0 livecd docs # fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x67386738 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 2433 19543041 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 2434 5016 20747947+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 5017 17174 97659135 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb4 17175 24321 57408277+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 17175 17198 192748+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 17199 24197 56219436 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 24198 24321 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris livecd docs # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x72656d69 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1947 15639246 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1948 14695 102398310 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 14696 14728 265072+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 14729 20023 42532087+ 83 Linux livecd docs # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00016638 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 249 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 250 1536 10337827+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1537 30401 231858112+ 8e Linux LVM livecd docs # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x60a7defc Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 8e Linux LVM
An I/O error is a sign of fscked up hardware.
Well, that or just being unable to perform I/O operations, which could be caused by a number of reasons. Did you see any messages in dmesg/messages that might indicate a problem?
(In reply to comment #2) > Well, that or just being unable to perform I/O operations, which could be > caused by a number of reasons. Did you see any messages in dmesg/messages that > might indicate a problem? I picked the machine apart, trying to locate a hardware problem. It turned out that both memory modules were defective. I replaced them, and now the mechine is rock solid. Thanks for the input. Settig the bug as "Resolved, Invalid".
