Bug 457110

Summary:	vfat partitions cause Anaconda installer to throw an exception
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	david
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Description Kelly Miller 2008-07-29 17:14:40 UTC

Every time I attempt to install Fedora 9 from the install DVD, it throws an
exception at the beginning of install if it even senses the presence of a vfat
partition.  It crashes whether I'm telling it to format a vfat, to install to a
vfat, or even simply to mount a vfat partition without doing anything else. 
Obviously this is a regression of some sort from F8 (because although I got an
exception in F8, it wasn't due to the vfat partition).

Comment 1 Andy Lindeberg 2008-07-29 19:58:33 UTC

Can you attach the traceback you're getting? I've attempted to reproduce this
but was unable to do so.

Comment 2 Kelly Miller 2008-07-29 20:24:13 UTC

I'm not 100% sure how I would get it in this case; is there an option to email
the traceback or write it to disk somewhere?  I mean, since I don't get through
the install, the hard drives still don't appear to have anything on them...

Comment 3 Andy Lindeberg 2008-08-04 17:28:16 UTC

When F10 Beta comes out, there will be an option in the traceback popup that will allow you to save it directly to bugzilla. The feature was added to Alpha, but most likely was broken by the recent bugzilla upgrade. You're welcome to try the Alpha to see if it works.

Comment 4 David Nalley 2008-10-21 21:13:35 UTC

Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.