Bug 20740
| Summary: | create Cdrom os.symlink during install failed | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tim <timrose> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| 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: | 2000-11-17 19:28:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is a dupe of bug 18403. Before I close it as a dupe, could you include information on how you partitioned your system, included the sizes of the different mount points? Also any other information you could include to help us reproduce this problem would be wonderful. Ok - all numbers in MB 51 / 51 /boot 200 /tmp 62 swap 1082 /usr 303 /home 500 /opt 86 /export/home 102 /var The error happens at the end of the package installation process - at the very end, the installation of 4 or so packages appear to fail, as they appear briefly on the screen without a red progress bar; the error appears immediately afterward. At least three of the packages that appear to fail are: dhcp, squid and tripwire. Network card is a 3c905 - installed static ip (no dhcp/no bootp) PPro 180chip overclocked to 200Mhz DTK Motherboard 56MB RAM - all 6 simm slots filled:16MB*2, 8MB*2, 4MB*2 2.5 GB Western Digital AH32500 IDE 52x max delta (cheap) ide cdrom on secondary ide controller Video:S3 Trio 64V2, 4MB Installation steps: 1 use "linux updates text" install option (use anaconda 1009 update disk) 2 English language 3 US keyboard 4 Custom System 5 Use Disk Druid to partition disk. Label existing partitions (or delete them all and recreate them, it doesn't seem to matter - however note that the drive has partitions to start with) 6 Format all 7 Lilo config - leave linear mode enabled 8 install lilo /dev/hda (MBR) 9 Lilo config - hit ok 10 enter hostname 11 network config - configure static ip address (no bootp/dhcp) 12 2 button PS/2 mouse, emulate 3 buttons 13 America/NY time zone 14 Select root pw; then add one user account 15 Leave Shadow and MD5 passwords enabled 16 Select the following package groups along with select individual packages: Printer Support X Window Sys KDE Networked Workstation SMB Server Web Server Network Management Workstation Kernel Development 17 Add/remove the following: Add Amusements/Graphics kdetoys Remove App/Archiving rmt Rem App/Archiving sharutils Rem App/Communications pilot-link Rem App/Internet ncftp Add App/Internet rsync Rem App/Internet talk Add App/System iproute, kdeadmin Rem App/System modemtool, mt-st Add App/System tripwire Rem Devt/Libraries pilot-link-devel Add Sys Env/Daemons dhcp, ppp, rp-pppoe Rem Sys Env/Daemons rsh-server, rusers, rusers-server, rwall-server, rwho Add Sys Env/Daemons squid Rem Sys Env/Daemons talk-server, telnet-server, tftp-server Add Sys Env/Daemons wu-ftpd Add Sys Env/Shells mc Any idea for a workaround? Thanks, Tim R. Thank you very much for the complete bug report. I've seen many reports of this problem, but none had enough information to duplicate. I am hopeful which your help we can get to the bottom of this issue. My guess is if you made your / partition bigger (like 100M to be sure) it would work. Could you try that and let us know if it helps? I think you've uncovered a case which has turned up before because you made your '/' partition smaller than most people do (which is not bad, btw). It appears for some reason our check that you have enough space before starting the install is not adequare in this case. Assigned to a QA engineer to reproduce locally. Tim, thanks for the detailed (and excellent! :)) test steps above ... using them, we are able to reproduce the problem locally ... :) Ok you ran out of inodes. This is related to bug 16214. Thanks, however I get a "permission denied" message when I try to access bug 16214. Is the workaround to have fewer mount points? Larger root partition? Both or neither? Thanks again, Tim R. Hi, Sorry I fixed the other bug so you could see it. The fix is to make '/' larger. I think you really don't need so many partitions unless you have a special requirement. Most people use a '/', swap, and a '/home' for desktop use. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16214 *** |
Second time this happened. This time used anaconda 1009update disk which made no difference. Installation was FTP, using bootnet.img. Used "linux updates text" start option. System: PPro 200 with 56MB RAM and 2.5GB IDE; IDE CDROM attached to second IDE controller built into motherboard. Here's the dump info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in __call__ File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1638, in doInstall self.createCdrom() File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1189, in createCdrom os.symlink(device, self.instPath + "/dev/" + cdname) OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device Local variables in innermost frame: device: hdc list: ['hdc'] self: <todo.ToDo instance at 82a1dc8> cdname: cdrom count: 1 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iurlinstall UrlInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'baseUrl' p6 S'ftp://ftp- linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/current/i386/en' sbsS'initlevel' p7 I3 sS'skipLilo' p8 I0 sS'progressWindow' p9 (itext ProgressWindow (dp10 S'scale' p11 (isnack Scale (dp12 S'w' <failed>