Bug 163113

Summary:	partitioning fails Attributeerror: 'NoneType' object has no attribute name
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Evan Panagiotopoulos <epanagio>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Evan Panagiotopoulos 2005-07-12 23:29:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
During installation of FC4 I receive an error on my iBook. I can't save the information without a floppy. Initially i received an error saying "pvcreate failed." Now I always get a multi-line exception that points to partedUtils.py line 140, in get_partition_file_system_type 

elif

(part.get_flag(parted.PARTITION_BOOT) == 1 and AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot iBook with cd FC4 #1
2. Choose either text or graphical intallation
3. Any choice of installation and/partitioning
  

Actual Results:  A popup window lists the exception

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2005-07-13 13:54:35 UTC

Please post the full traceback message you are getting.

Comment 2 Cedric Buot de l'Epine 2005-07-22 16:36:50 UTC

Same problem for me.
So here's the traceback.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1160, in ?
    intf.run(id, dispatch)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 496,
in run
    dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line
174, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line
242, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py",
line 54, in partitionObjectsInitialize
    partitions.setFromDisk(diskset)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line
108, in setFromDisk
    ptype = 
partedUtils.get_partition_file_system_type(part)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line
140, in get_partition_file_system_type
    elif (part.get_flag(parted.PARTITION_BOOT)
== 1 and
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no 
attribute 'name'

No idea of how to copy/paste, so I hope I didn't make too many typos.

My "parted /dev/hda print": 
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-9590.273 megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.000      0.031              Apple                 
2          0.031      0.058              Macintosh             
3          0.059      0.085              Macintosh             
4          0.086      0.113              Macintosh             
5          0.113      0.140              Macintosh             
6          0.141      0.390              Macintosh             
7          0.391      0.640              Macintosh             
8          0.641      0.890              Patch Partition       
9          0.891      1.890              boot                  boot
10         1.891   4280.890              root                  root
11      4280.891   4792.890              swap                  swap
12      4924.047   9590.265  hfs+        Apple_HFS_Untitled_3  
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.  

I tried to name the parts 9 and 10 from "unknown" to boot/root the the problem
seems to come from the swap.

Comment 3 Paul Nasrat 2005-07-22 16:44:37 UTC

What created the partition table above? This looks completely wrong. Please
delete the created partition and let anaconda partition in the free space.

Or else you'll need an Apple_Bootstrap partition with the boot flag (this is NOT
/boot it is something different). No other flags should be set on the linux
partitions unless it is lvm.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2005-07-26 04:00:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161877 ***

Comment 5 Cedric Buot de l'Epine 2005-08-23 11:16:08 UTC

Anaconda did this before a first crash.
So I've "cat /dev/zero >> /dev/hda" and re-install macosx and all.
I then just had the same problem.
The first anaconda crash is reproductible when installing FC4 in french and text
mode.
re-wipe/re-re-installing the all stuff in english just worked fine.