Bug 221147

Summary: LTC15167-SystemError: lvremove failed during installation
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Gavin Romig-Koch <gavin>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: 4.4CC: agk, dwysocha, jbrassow, mbroz, prockai, syeghiay
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Description Gavin Romig-Koch 2007-01-02 14:09:39 UTC
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Description of problem:
This was previously https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200252 which was closed for lack of clarity.  What follows is the TAM's attempt to clarify the issue.


Steps to reproduce:
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This problem has been reproduced by the following process on rhel4 qu4 beta2.
1. Install RHEL4 QU4 with only virtual disk A attached- Success;
2. Install RHEL4 QU4 with only virtual disk B attached - Success;
3. Install RHEL4 QU4 with both virtual disk A and B attached - Error.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc.
             ┌────────────┤ Exception Occurred ├──â”
             │                                               │
             │ An unhandled exception has occurred.        # │
             │ This is most likely a bug.  Please copy     ▒ │
             │ the full text of this exception and file    ▒ │
             │ a detailed bug report against anaconda at   ▒ │
             │ http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/        ▒ │
             │                                             ▒ │
             │ Traceback (most recent call last):          ▒ │
             │   File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1181, in   ▒ │
             │ ?                                           ▒ │
             │     intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)  ▒ │
             │   File                                      ▒ │
             │ "/usr/src/build/758992-ppc/install//usr/li  ▒ │
             │ b/anaconda/text.py", line 510, in run       ▒ │
             │     dispatch.gotoNext()                     ▒ │
             │   File                                      ▒ │
             │ "/usr/src/build/758992-ppc/install//usr/li  # │
             │ b/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 171, in       ▒ │
             │ gotoNext                                    ▒ │
             │     self.moveStep()                         ▒ │
             │   File                                      ▒ │
             │ "/usr/src/build/758992-ppc/install//usr/li  ▒ │
             │ b/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 239, in       ▒ │
             │ moveStep                                    ▒ │
             │     rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))   ▒ │
             │   File                                      ▒ │
             │ "/usr/src/build/758992-ppc/install//usr/li  ▒ │
             │ b/anaconda/packages.py", line 564, in       ▒ │
             │ turnOnFilesystems                           ▒ │
             │     partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset)       ▒ │
             │   File                                      ▒ │
             │ "/usr/src/build/758992-ppc/install//usr/li  ▒ │
             │ b/anaconda/partitions.py", line 1205, in    ▒ │
             │ doMetaDeletes                               # │
             │     lvm.lvremove(delete.name, delete.vg)    ▒ │
             │   File                                      ▒ │
             │ "/usr/src/build/758992-ppc/install//usr/li  ▒ │
             │ b/anaconda/lvm.py", line 143, in lvremove   ▒ │
             │     raise SystemError, "lvremove failed"    ▒ │
             │ SystemError: lvremove failed                # │
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
See description.

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-01-02 14:20:50 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2007-01-15 18:28:56 UTC
Please attach the complete traceback that was received.

Comment 10 Alasdair Kergon 2007-02-27 16:50:26 UTC
Extract of lvm2 messages from report:

  Volume group VolGroup00 metadata is inconsistent
  Volume group for uuid not found:
g5vgtzDFzM0eYlvEq1f3euw8wi5ttH55K2sMouVX97215rmbjERnCX9u9c1rlIUH
  Unable to deactivate logical volume "LogVol01"
  Inconsistent metadata copies found - updating to use version 17

(There have been changes to this logic since the version run here.)

Comment 11 RHEL Program Management 2007-03-10 00:53:38 UTC
This bugzilla had previously been approved for engineering
consideration but Red Hat Product Management is currently reevaluating
this issue for inclusion in RHEL4.6.

Comment 13 RHEL Program Management 2007-05-09 08:26:32 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 14 Issue Tracker 2007-06-11 13:10:20 UTC
----- Additional Comments From mranweil.com (prefers email at
mjr.com)  2007-06-08 18:31 EDT -------
Red Hat - this has been a long journey with this one.  I think the
remaining
issues on this side are going to possibly be covered by a feature.  I
don't know
if there's more work planned on your side (for 4.6 or later) that we
should keep
this bug open or not.  Any thoughts? 


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Comment 17 David Cantrell 2007-08-21 21:48:12 UTC
Setting devel-nak per comment #15.

Comment 18 RHEL Program Management 2007-08-21 21:51:26 UTC
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.