Bug 147916

Summary: Installer crash with anacdump when insufficient disk space
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ricky Ng-Adam <rngadam>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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the produced dump from Anaconda none

Description Ricky Ng-Adam 2005-02-12 19:41:10 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Anaconda installer crashes with anacdump after having displayed the dialog annoucing that there is insufficient disk space to install.

(bravo on the opportunity of saving the dump on a floppy, very useful).

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installing on a laptop with a Windows partition
2. Select workstation install
3. Partition with a) swap 512MB b) /boot 100 MB c) LVM volume root for the rest (around 1.5G)
4. continue install
5. Get insufficient disk space popup

Actual Results:  Crash with anacdump (will post as attachment)

Expected Results:  Should have returned to the package selection screen

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Comment 1 Ricky Ng-Adam 2005-02-12 19:43:09 UTC 
Created attachment 111031 [details]
the produced dump from Anaconda
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2005-02-13 02:41:10 UTC 
This is fixed post-FC3.  For FC3, ensuring that you have enough space for doing
your install is the recommended workaround.