Bug 166820
| Summary: | Duplicate Labels reported after selecting 'upgrade' | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Lenny G. Arbage <alengarbage> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | ||
| 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: | 2007-08-24 21:09:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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As a note, I had this same problem on this box when I upgraded from FC1 to FC2. The solution I used then was to open up the case and detach the second drive before installing, then reattach after install finished (turning the drive off in BIOS has no effect). I had this same problem last night upgrading FC3 to FC4 on a system with two IDE disks, no RAID or LVM, with a swap partition on each, much like the above. Examination of the error output on the console screens indicated a swap label problem. After some fiddling, I remade the formerly unlabelled swap partitions with labels using the -L switch of the mkswap command. The upgrade then proceeded as normal. Tried that, did the trick. Thanks for the pointer. Did you have anything with duplicate labels? That should be the only way this check gets triggered... It appears that the default labels for the swap partitions caused the problem. hdb was, at one time, the primary (master) drive, and as such was bootable (RH7.1 and 7.2) with its own swap partitions. I didn't find any documentation on the -L switch for mkswap as suggested in comment #2 above, so I just used fdisk to delete hdb3 (b's swap partition). After deleting hdb3, the message went away and I was able to upgrade. In this case (two or more swap partitions with the same label), couldn't the installer simply use the one that is on the primary disk? Or rename them automatically? Or ask the user to pick which partition they would like to use as the swap partition? Or simply show a more helpful message, at least indicating which partitions are causing the problem? (I certainly don't understand all the details of why anaconda has a problem in this case, just throwing out some ideas). At any rate, I'm sure this is a somewaht rare problem -- most users probably don't replace their primary drives by just moving them to the slave position. But it appears that doing so will result in this error pretty much every time. This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks. requested by Jams Antill |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 Description of problem: After selecting 'upgrade' and selecting the partition (I have a slave disk with an old install), the installer pops up a window titled "Duplicate Labels" with the message "Multiple devices on your system are labelled" (truncated there). It then gives one suggestion: reboot. hda looks like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility /dev/hda2 * 6 642 5116702+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 643 3583 23623582+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 3584 3647 514080 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 3584 3647 514048+ 82 Linux swap hdb looks like: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 392 3148708+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb2 393 915 4200997+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 916 932 136552+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb4 933 2168 9928170 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 * 933 1060 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 1061 1583 4200966 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 1584 2168 4698981 83 Linux Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to upgrade FC2 box from CD 2. Click "Next" after installer chooses "upgrade" Additional info: