Before installation attempt I did run the "media check" and the DVD passed
with no issues.  Probably not related, but I did install from DVD in an
external USB DVD drive even though the computer has an internal DVD drive
(that's sometimes not reliable).

Here's output from the "lspci" command:

[_MASTER_ root@porta01 ~]#
[_MASTER_ root@porta01 ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub
(rev b1)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 2-3 (rev b1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 4-5 (rev b1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8
Port 6-7 (rev b1)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA Engine
(rev b1)
00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers
(rev b1)
00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers
(rev b1)
00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers
(rev b1)
00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved
Registers (rev b1)
00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved
Registers (rev b1)
00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers
(rev b1)
00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers
(rev b1)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI
USB Controller #1 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI
USB Controller #2 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI
USB Controller #3 (rev 09)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset EHCI
USB2 Controller (rev 09)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC
Interface Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller (rev
09)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI
Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset SMBus
Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream
Port (rev 01)
01:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X
Bridge (rev 01)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream
Port E1 (rev 01)
02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream
Port E3 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
08:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)
[_MASTER_ root@porta01 ~]#
[_MASTER_ root@porta01 ~]#


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 02/22/2011 11:32 AM, Nathan Watson wrote:
>
>> I tried to install SL6 x86_64 on a system already successfully running 64
>> -bit Fedora 13,
>> error happens soon after bootup, before reaching any user interaction rel
>> ated to the
>> installer.
>>
>> Computer is Intel Xeon dual quad-core SuperMicro.
>>
>> No (easy) way to get screenshot, photograph available temporarily at:
>>
>> http://www.gg411.com/IMG_20110220_224246.jpg.  Oops, now I see I can atta
>> ch a file, I'll attach
>> a photo of the error ...
>>
>> Error shows a Python stack trace with this stack (partial info only):
>>
>>   * /usr/bin/anaconda
>>   * /usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py, __init__
>>   * /usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py, reset
>>   * /usr/lib/anaconda/network.py, __init__
>>   * /usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py, getDeviceProperties
>>   * /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py, __call__
>>   * /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py, __call__ (again)
>>   * /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbux/connections.py, call_blocking
>>     * something about "interface 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' isn't e
>> xposed (or may not exist),
>> can't access property 'Interface'"
>>
>> I can get more info about computer from current Fedora-13 installation (e
>> .g., "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
>> or "cat /proc/net/...."), let me know what might help.  I'm not sure whet
>> her this is a RHEL6 issue or
>> specifically an SL6 issue.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Would like info on workarounds as well.
>>
>
> Hi Nathan,
> That is a new error that I haven't seen before.
>
> Could you boot back into Fedora and send us a "lspci" so we can see what
> kind of network card it is.
>
> Also, can you check the DVD by doing the media check at the beginning of
> the install.
>
> Thanks
> Troy
> --
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