Bug 30157

Summary: Fatal error during installation (formating disk/swap space)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Christopher Schreiber <chris>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christopher Schreiber 2001-03-01 08:48:54 UTC
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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 1480, in 
doInstall
    if self.method.systemMounted (self.fstab, self.instPath, 
self.hdList.selected()):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 46, in 
systemMounted
    self.loopbackFile = mntPoint + fstab.filesystemSpace(mntPoint)[0][0] + 
\
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 258, in 
filesystemSpace
    space.append((mntpoint, isys.fsSpaceAvailable(topMount + '/' + 
mntpoint)))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 16, in fsSpaceAvailable
    return _isys.devSpaceFree(fsystem)
SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory')

Local variables in innermost frame:
fsystem: /mnt/sysimage//dos

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

<failed>


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
This is reproducable on my system everytime I try to install.
This is a custom installation, selecting everything for installation.
See Additional Information for my system specs


Actual Results:  See description (error message) above

System: Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop 
Pentium-III/800 512MB RAM 32GB Disk
DVD-ROM
Disk partitioned as follows:
FAT  - 60MB - Hidden Primary (Partion Magic boot)
Ext2 - 40MB - Primary (/boot fs)
NTFS - 20GB - Active/Primary (NT 2000 C:)
Swap -  1GB - Logical (swap)
Ext2 - 10GB - Logical (/ root fs)

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-03-01 17:34:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18032 ***