Bug 25168

Summary: My install failed it said to open a bug report
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Don Schenk <dschenk>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Don Schenk 2001-01-29 03:25:35 UTC
Here is the report generated at the time of failure.  Sorry, this is my 
first shot at opening a bug report.

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: 3084448
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8387b08>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 0
errno: 22
device: hda6
instPath: /mnt/sysimage
mntpoint: /

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-01-30 00:37:14 UTC
Its looks like you were trying to use /dev/hda6 as your '/' mount point, but
chose not to format it. It needs to be formatted for the install to proceed.