Re: F44 installer still hangs near end of install on slow machines

On Thu, 2026-02-19 at 01:32 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> The newest one, the X131e from 2013, has 4 GB of RAM. That machine is UEFI. The other two are both legacy BIOS desktops from 2008, one is a Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p with 16 GB of RAM, the other is a Compaq Presario SR5413WM with 4 GB of RAM. As I said, the only one of the three where it would complete even part of the time was the one from 2013 with 4 GB, so I'm pretty sure the issue is speed, not RAM. I realize that almost no one today uses such old machines and I'm guessing that's even more true of testers, but given it's happened on all three of my old machines it shouldn't be hard to reproduce if the machine is slow/old enough, although to actually get it to stop with an error message it's necessary to try opening the storage editor menu, and even then the error seems to be somewhat random (I only saw the latest error once) so I don't think that would be helpful in reporting it.

Hmm, yeah, doesn't sound like RAM, then.

When it's in the apparently-stuck state, can you get to a console with
ctrl-alt-f2 or ctrl-alt-f3 and see what the journal and /tmp/*.log
files show? If not, since you say it seems like the install actually
completes, can you boot the installed system and look at the logs in
/var/log/anaconda and see what they say?

Thanks!
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