Bug 21510
| Summary: | could not create swap partition | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | shivaji apte <shivaji_apte> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-12-27 17:28:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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What was your original partitioning scheme before you created the partitions listed in your bug report? This is a dupe of bug 16686, and we're having trouble reproducing it. Your info would really help! The original configuration before I used the fdisk was: 1 big fat ugly 9.8GB partition with Win2K on it. Shivaji |
I have an Acer machine (256MB RAM, 9.8GB HD). I had configured the following partition scheme: /hda1 ---> /win (windows partition) 6000MB /hda2 ---> /boot 24MB /hda3 ---> swap 256MB /hda4 ---> /usr 2000MB /hda5 ---> / 1400MB While installing, it failed giving some error like 'unable to create swap partition. This is an exceptional condition and might be a bug....' The log is attached below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: 24097 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84ba848> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 1 errno: 22 device: hda2 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: /boot ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- However, the same installation when attempted again went through fine. Shivaji