Bug 34412

Summary:	7.0 fresh install fails at start of package copy
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Richard Swacen <rswacen1>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Richard Swacen 2001-04-03 02:19:31 UTC

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"Error Mounting hdb2: Invalid Argument
Seems related to bugs 20574,26299, and 28192
I may not have formatted partitions beforehand

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Went through normal custom install of i386en from CDROM
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  install fails with Anaconda dump errmsg: "Error Mounting 
hdb2: Invalid Argument"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: 102816
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8446f90>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 0
errno: 22
device: hdb2
instPath: /mnt/sysimage
mntpoint: /

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

<failed>


Expected Results:  Smooth continuation of installation 

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: 102816
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8446f90>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 0
errno: 22
device: hdb2
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 2001-04-03 15:08:14 UTC

It appears you tried to mount /dev/hdb2 as '/' without formatting it first. You
may want to try that, since we require a formatted partition for the install to
work.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-04-03 16:02:23 UTC

Looks like bug 16686.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-04-20 03:57:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16686 ***