Bug 34738
| Summary: | RH upgrade crashes if a Linux partition has no valid filesystem | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jason Grant <dadima> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-04-04 19:51:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20006 *** Applied the following patch: diff -u -r1.92 it.po --- it.po 2001/04/03 22:44:26 1.92 +++ it.po 2001/04/04 19:40:14 @@ -4366,7 +4366,8 @@ "\n" " o il nome o l'indirizzo IP del server web\n" " o la directory presente sul server che contiene\n" -" il software Red Hat Linux specifico per la vostra architettura\n" +" il software Red Hat Linux specifico per la \n" +" vostra architettura\n" #: ../loader/urls.c:187 This should fix the problem. Change should appear in the qa0405 trees and beyond. Thanks for your following up on this one. Whoops...committed to the wrong bug. Please disregard my last post. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686; Nav) Anaconda crashes while searching for previous RH installations if any partition is marked as "Linux" but doesn't have a valid file system. The anaconda updates don't fix this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start install 2. select keyboard, etc. 3. choose "upgrade" 4. anaconda crashes while searching for previous RH installations Actual Results: anacdump.txt: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 336, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 678, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 428, in nextClicked self.setScreen (self.currentScreen, self.nextClicked) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 466, in setScreen new_screen = screen.getScreen () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/examine_gui.py", line 30, in getScreen self.parts = self.todo.upgradeFindRoot () File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 881, in upgradeFindRoot isys.umount('/mnt/sysimage') File "isys.py", line 113, in umount raise ValueError, "isys.umount() can only umount by mount point" ValueError: isys.umount() can only umount by mount point Local variables in innermost frame: what: /mnt/sysimage removeDir: 1 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> Creating a file system on the partition in question fixes things, but the installer should be more robust...