Bug 140294
| Summary: | Installer fails on disks with out-of-disk-order partitions | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Darryl Dixon <bugzilla-fedora.20.esrever_otua> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | nobody+pnasrat |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:07:13 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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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report to bug-parted containing the version (1.6.15) and the following message:Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): parted-1.6.15 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Partition disk so that partitions are numbered out-of-disk-order 2.Run installer to attempt to upgrade an old FC install 3.Installer fails when attempting to detect old installs to upgrade Actual Results: Installer fails with a popup window labelled 'BUG' with the following contents: Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Expected Results: Installer should detect previous FC install and upgrade correctly. Additional info: This is a bug in version 1.6.15 of parted. The full error output (from external testing) is: A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report to bug-parted containing the version (1.6.15) and the following message:Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. Error: Can't have the end before the start! After discussions with the parted development team, they advised to test version 1.6.18; I did so and this version does indeed function correctly. An example partiton layout that triggers this bug is: Disk /dev/hda: 36.8 GB, 36848527872 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4759 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 16 120928+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 17 51 264600 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 52 745 5246640 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda4 746 4759 30345840 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1301 1335 264568+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1336 2924 12012808+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda7 2925 4110 8966128+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda8 4111 4759 4906439+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda9 746 1300 4195768+ 8e Linux LVM Note that hda9 is actually at the start of the extended partition, even though it is labelled as the last.