Bug 17858

Summary: failure for install
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <david_mar>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
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Description Need Real Name 2000-09-26 14:31:55 UTC
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", 
line 20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in 
doInstall
    self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 713, in 
mountFilesystems
    raise SystemError, (errno, msg)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Local variables in innermost frame:
size: 2048256
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84baab0>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 0
errno: 22
device: sda7
instPath: /mnt/sysimage
mntpoint: /home

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-26 15:01:08 UTC
Was this an install or upgrade?

Did you choose to format /home if it was a separate partition?


Comment 2 Need Real Name 2000-09-26 20:21:18 UTC
This was a complete install over an old system.

I didn't choose to install over home.  Thinking back over now, i didn't choose 
to format home.  This would have been a problem because home was in a different 
portion of the drive.  So of course it would fail.  So i'm thinking that the 
default option should have been to format home...

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2000-09-26 22:46:23 UTC
no i didn't format home.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-29 16:03:57 UTC
We don't make it in by default because it is not uncommon for people to
reinstall machines and we thought it
safer to not format the data they want to keep.

Sorry this wasn't clearer.