Bug 134575

Summary: anaconda fails on system with lots of disks
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 4.0CC: nobody+pnasrat
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Description Jesse Barnes 2004-10-04 18:17:06 UTC
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Description of problem:
In trying to install on a system with 130 disks, I get this backtrace:
Starting graphical installation...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1062, in ?
    iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 457, in makeDriveDeviceNodes
    isys.makeDevInode(drive, "/dev/%s" % (drive,))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 393, in makeDevInode
    _isys.mkdevinode(name, fn)
SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory')
install exited abnormally


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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-04 18:38:33 UTC
Added a fix in CVS.

Comment 2 Jesse Barnes 2004-10-07 15:54:11 UTC
Works now.