Bug 108162
| Summary: | text install using autopartition errors or crashes when trying to "fill all available space" and partition size left blank. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Karsten Wade <kwade> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:59:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** Bug 108163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108164 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108164 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
Description of problem: When performing a text install and choosing autopartition, manual partition acts in a non-intuitive way. If you select "Fill all available space:" and deselect the other partition size options, an error returns: Invalid Entry for Partition Size Must specify a value. One would assume that if you are selecting an option to fill the partition with all available space, it would not be necessary to define any sizing. As it so happens, if you put a 1 in the "Size (MB)" field, it will accept that and go forward, creating a partition which uses all available space. Putting in a 0 (zero) causes anaconda to crash. See the follow-on bug report for the traceback. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 3 anaconda as ships with RHEL 3 diskdruid? as ships with RHEL 3 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a text install of RHEL 3, choose autopartitioning 2. Manually tweak the offered partition, creating a new partition which takes up all available space 3. Set the "Size (MB)" to 0 (zero) to crash, or to nothing to cause it to error in an unexpected fashion. Actual results: Crash or apparent inability to set a dynamic partition creating size without specifying a static vallue. Expected results: Nothing crashes or complains when the "Size (MB)" filed is filled with 0 or left blank. Additional info: See follow-up traceback.