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Title: YaST aborts when reading the description files

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YaST aborts when reading the description files
Symptom:
You want to specify the desired packages with YaST during the
installation. After having chosen the menue item Choose/Install packages
YaST starts to read in the description files.
However YaST crashes with an error message like the following :
ERROR: Unknown Error!, DETAIL: 0 FILE: SerRetriever.cc LINE: 304
The error can appear in the modules:
SerRetriever.cc
PkgRetriever.cc
DuRetriever.cc
A similar error with a different cause might also appear here.
It is described in the SDB article "YaST crashes when
reading the description files"
Cause:
Your CDROM drive has difficulties with the data transmission from the CD
into the main memory. The error appears at this point, because it is the first
time that large amounts of data are being read from CD. There are several possible
possible reasons for this behaviour :
- Your CDROM drive's lens is dirty.
- Your CDROM drive does'nt react fast enough to the computer's control
commands (like e.g. the Mitsumi FX001(D))
- Your CD is defective. This is not very likely;
If you have an ATAPI CDROM drive:
- Your ATAPI drive is not fully ATAPI conform.
- The drive "chokes" during the transmission.
If you have a SCSI CDROM drive:
- Your SCSI drive is not SCSI conform.
- There are interfering signals on the SCSI bus (e.g. caused by other SCSI devices).
- Disturbances appear during the transmission to the main memory.
Solution:
- For SCSI CDROM drives, please read the SCSI-checklist.
- With ATAPI drives, the kernel parameter
hdc=serialize
might help (provided that hdc
is your CDROM drive).
- You can also install Linux indirectly via the hard disk.
Please read about this the article
"S.u.S.E. Linux installation via hard disk".
- In the worst case it might be necessary to buy a new CD-ROM drive

See also:

Keywords: YAST, INSTALLATION, CD, DU, SWAP, MAIN MEMORY

Categories:
IDE
, CD-ROM

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