Bug 443182

Summary: Installer crashed when installing live cd to disk
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mathirajan S. Manoharan <mathiraj>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: anaconda-maint-list, geri
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Description Mathirajan S. Manoharan 2008-04-19 00:47:51 UTC 
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Description of problem:
boot with fedora 9 live cd
install to a disk with pre created partition (partition1: fat32, partition2 : swap, partition : ext3)
installer reports unhandled exception and exits.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fedore 9 refresh

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot with fedora 9 live cd
2.install to a disk with pre created partition (partition1: fat32, partition2 : swap, partition : ext3)
3.installer reports unhandled exception and exits.

Actual Results:
installer writes the contents to file and exits.

Expected Results:
installer should have installed fedora

Additional info:
i have the InstallError.txt. Where do I post it? It's ~5 mb in size.
Comment 1 Mathirajan S. Manoharan 2008-04-19 00:48:42 UTC 
Created attachment 302962 [details]
InstallError.txt

This is the file written by Installer when it exited.
Comment 2 Rich Megginson 2008-04-19 03:04:53 UTC 
I'm not sure where this goes, so I'm moving it to anaconda.
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2008-04-20 20:31:17 UTC 
Did you verify that your download and burn are correct?  This sounds like bad
media to me.
Comment 4 Mathirajan S. Manoharan 2008-04-21 20:46:36 UTC 
yes. when booting the live cd also, I selected "verify and boot" which booted
fine with out any problem.

is there any other way to verify if the burn is correct?
Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-22 19:05:12 UTC 
That's the main way.  Can you try adding 'libata.dma=0' to your kernel command
line?  It'll be slower, but it will help to pin down if DMA is the problem
Comment 6 Mathirajan S. Manoharan 2008-04-23 23:36:34 UTC 
tried with 'libata.dma=0'
still get the same exception. no difference.
Comment 7 Chuck Ebbert 2008-05-02 10:56:48 UTC 
How is this a kernel bug?
Comment 8 Bill Nottingham 2008-05-02 17:18:04 UTC 
It's getting I/O errors reading a valid livecd.
Comment 9 Jens Petersen 2008-05-08 05:12:44 UTC 
I just rolled a x86_64 Live image here from latest rawhide , booted it from usb and
installed from it fine FWIW.
Comment 10 Bill Nottingham 2008-05-09 17:15:24 UTC 
Removing from blocker, we could not reproduce this and are not holding the
release for it.
Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:41:25 UTC 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 12 Geri Broser 2008-10-28 09:17:43 UTC 
Get the same error with the latest F9 Desktop Live-CD: http://fedora.pastebin.com/m1b396629

1. Put the i686-Live-CD to USB.
2. System starts and works like a charm.
3. Selected „Install to Hard drive”
4. After entering all the necessary information the installation starts and crashes at about 80%.

Do you need any further information? HW? What I specified in the installer?
Comment 13 Chuck Ebbert 2008-10-31 07:39:06 UTC 
Why is this filed as a kernel bug?
Comment 14 Geri Broser 2008-10-31 13:41:14 UTC 
The error doesn't occur with F10 Beta Desktop Live-CD any longer. (At least on my IBM TP T30.)