Bug 22907
| Summary: | Installation of Linux failed | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Caspar von Walzel <caspar.von.walzel> |
| Component: | installer | 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: | 2001-01-09 23:06:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The installation of Redhat Linux 7.0 failed with the following errormessage: 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 "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 1534207 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84b98d8> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 1 errno: 22 device: hdb4 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> The installation was attemted directly from CD, with the Workstation option, partitioning done with fdisk. After assigning mountpoints and initialising format an error stated that the swap partitions could not be created and the installer exited with the above message. For further information, please contact me at caspar.von.walzel