| Summary: | Anaconda crashes on kickstart GUI and Text during partitioning | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | John Van Boxtel <jvanbox> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | barryn, pnasrat | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-12-01 19:03:58 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 107275 [details]
Crash Dump
You appear to have specified to place partitions on the disk sdc which isn't present in your system. Shouldn't I get an error such as "no device found sdc" instead of a crash? I will try using a different device, which probably will fix it, but I still think that the installer should not crash, but exit with an error. Kickstart doesn't always report invalid inputs in the most user friendly of ways. Changes for that are listed as an RFE filed elsewhere. RHEL4 will at least do slightly better about giving more understandable tracebacks and then hopefully for RHEL5, we'll have things so that the errors get reported up in an even more user-friendly fashion. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: While performing a kickstart installation, on a HP/Compaq DL380 G3 with attached storage shelf, Anaconda will crash with an execption error. If I do not specify the drive in the kickstart config, the installation works fine. If I specify the drive I want the partitions created on this is when it crashes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Setup an NFS installation server, per documentation 2.Create a kickstart disk specifing a disk under the partition creation 3.Boot the kickstart (I used a floppy) 4.Installation will crash when it goes to partition the drive Actual Results: Anaconda crashed with an exception error in "autopart" Expected Results: The drive should have been partitioned, and installation continue Additional info: Strangly, it tells me that the NFS server directory could not be mounted, then I hit OK, and enter (without changing values) and it works. This also shows up in the logs (doNFSinstall, NFS mount attempt, doNFSinstall, mounts, ...)