Bug 21099
| Summary: | Install gives an exceptional error and then freezes during the loopback creation process, even when the update disk is used. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Morphal <nick> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | 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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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-12-19 19:10:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is most likely a dupe of bug 19577. Before we mark it as such, could you give us step by step information on how to reproduce this problem? oops...yeah it is a dupe, the same thing happens to me (the freezing up too) sorry about that, i didn't see 19577 when I was looking through the list. also, I did notice that it WOULD install properly when using the text-based installer, but not the grahical one. No problem - it would really help to have a step by step description of how to reproduce this issue. We have not been able to cause this problem to occur in our test lab so any information is very helpful. |
When I boot my computer with the Redhat 7 CD in, and go through the setup process, I get an error during the part where it creates the loopback system, and the computer freezes. I am running a PC with a Pentium II Xeon processor and 256 megs of ram, and I am installing Linux to an existing FAT32 partition. I get the following error: 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 1469, in doInstall self.fstab.makeFilesystems File "fstab.py", line 645, in makeFilesystems (self.progressWindow, _("Loopback"), File "isys.py", line 78, in ddfile os.write(fd, buf) I was able to reproduce this error every time i tried to install Linux. Then, I went to www.redhat.com and downloaded the anaconda fix disk, ran the installer again using 'linux updates' and it came up with the screen saying to insert the disk, and it read updates from it. With this disk, I get a slightly different error: 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 "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1488, in doInstall self.fstab.makeFilesystems File "/tmp/updates/fstab.py", line 645, in makeFilesystems (self.progressWindow, _("Loopback"), File "isys.py", line 78, in ddfile OSError: [Errno 27] File too large I was also able to reproduce this error every time I tried to install Linux.