Bug 462496

Summary:	ntfsresize during install stalls due to anaconda/xorg consuming all of CPU
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Richard Shaw <hobbes1069>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	hobbes1069
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OS:	Linux
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Description Richard Shaw 2008-09-16 18:20:08 UTC

Description of problem:
During installation (F9 DVD install) resizing of existing NTFS stalls. It appears that the "progress bar" did not correspond with the actual progress and the bar was updating the screen as fast as possible consuming all available CPU cycles (50/50 between anaconda and xorg). Renicing anaconda and Xorg to 19 and ntfsresize to 1 helped and it eventually completed without error. 


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How reproducible: Not sure, system is installed now...


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot to F9 x86_64 DVD
2. Resize existing NTFS partition (70->60GB)
3. Progress bar shows activity but no disk activity.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
I can provide smolt output if it would be helpful when I can get back on the laptop tonight. System is HP/Compaq Presario V5000 w/ AMD Turion ML-32 at 1.8GHz and ATI M200 chipset/video.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2008-11-11 22:25:50 UTC

Are you still seeing this with rawhide?

Comment 2 Richard Shaw 2008-11-11 23:01:08 UTC

Haven't tried. It's the wife's laptop and it was hard enough to get her to let me install Fedora, much less mess with it once I got everything working. 

Is there any way to simulate this without affecting the currently installed system?

Comment 3 David Cantrell 2009-03-23 20:41:00 UTC

Unable to reproduce this on rawhide.