Description of problem: currently running F17-alpha, and tried to do a manual partition. Selected as a filing system on disk partitioning tool [manually setting up virtual machine] and anaconda crashed. This system is running under Virtualbox 4.1.8 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17 Alpha How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Selected Basic Storage Type 2. Initialised disk 3. named machine f17-tester 4. sorted out the root password 5. Selected Create custom Layout 6. Create Standard Partition 7. selected mount point: /boot 8. selected file system type: btrfs 9. selected size: 500M 10. CRASHED! 11. Pressed DEBUG and Anaconda crashed out to command Actual results: Anaconda crashes out Expected results: Either accept btrfs can be used for /boot or not.... Additional info: The only thing I could get out was: btrfs_dev=self.storage.devicetree.getChildren(device)[0]
sorry - additional error statement: /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/iw/partition_gui.py(946)addDevice() and crashed out to (Pdb) prompt
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 787341 ***