Bug 48462
| Summary: | anaconda crash when one of disk had bad sectors in superblock | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <m.hejna> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-07-21 20:45:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I think one of two things is happening. 1) Maybe you have a bad hard drive. If there's something physically wrong with the drive, there's not much we can do. 2) Maybe there's something wrong with the disk handling code in anaconda. The existing disk handling code is being re-worked, so if this is causing the problem you are seeing, you shouldn't see this in the future. I would recommend trying the install one more time, except use fdisk instead of Disk Druid to make your partitions. After you make the partitions, try rebooting and then see if anaconda can see your drive. Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information. reply to last mail: I can`t reproduse bug. I`ve already returned that bad disk. But: I used fdisk (I like it). But I didn`t reboot computer after using fdisk in anaconda. But I ran anaconda two times. First time I didn`t use fdisk (all disk was partitioned right). Second time I changed type of hdd1 (which has bad sectors in superblock) to FAT16 (type 6). I hoped that this force anaconda to NOT look on this drive. The problem as I see it is that anaconda look on drives (I mean partitions) which I don`t want. I was installing on hda2, I did`t want anaconda look on hdd1/2/3. These three drives was marked as <unused> but anaconda looks on these drives (mainly on hdd1) (I think -- because it crash). Or anaconda should be more robust when finds bad drive. It didn`t crash due to disk malfunction (as locked bus), but there was some "exception execution" in code. I was still able to save report to fd0 and restart computer by clicking on some button. I am sorry I didn`t reply to your second question: anaconda saw all disks right every time. (hda and hdd were already partitioned right). I was also able to select mount points (hda2 as /, hda5 as swap, all others as <unused>), after that (and after selecting that only hda2 should be formated) anaconda crashed (as I already sad I think it was due to bad sectors in hdd1 -- which (disk hdd1) had nothing to do with install process! I`ve used this disk only as backup and even if it was ext2 I wanted to be <unused>. I recommend you disconnect any hardware which is not performing nominally when attempting to install. We simply cannot support installing on hardware which is not working. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i586) Description of problem: After selectin what disk I want format (not checking for bad blocks). Anaconda crash. I think it was due to hdd1 (not formated or mounted -- <unused>) had bad blocks in superblock. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have hdd1 with bad blocks in superblock (ext2 filesystem) 2. Run anaconda 3. Make install on hda2 with choosing hdd1 not for use <unused> in selecting mount points. After selecting format hda2 (don`t check for bad blocks) anaconda crash. I also tried making hdd1 FAT16 entry in fdisk and anacaonda still crash Actual Results: anaconda crash (list included) Expected Results: anaconda should continue installation process Additional info: My disks: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 128 1028128+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 129 638 4096575 83 Linux /dev/hda3 639 671 265072+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 672 790 955867+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 672 790 955836 6 FAT16 Disk /dev/hdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 1 2415 19398456 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 2416 4830 19398487+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd3 4831 4865 281137+ 83 Linux note: I tried it with hdd1 as FAT16 (not on disk, but in fdisk entry) and anaconda still craches. I first run anaconda just fine (hdd1 was good). After 30 minutes using my fresh Redhat Linux 7.1 hdd1 crash (bad block in superblock). I`ve run e2fsck several time and also mke2fs. Then I reinstall Linux again (Linux crash when hdd1 fail and I don`t want these errors on hda1 when I can simply avoid them for 30 minutes of my time). anaconda then crash as I have reported. Then I tried install second time. anaconda crash (on the same place -- chosing format hda2 without check for bad blocks). Then I run anaconda for third time and in fdisk change hdd1 entry to 6 (FAT16). anaconda still crash. Then I remove hdd from computer and anaconda ends fine. anaconda output (when crash): Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 391, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 879, 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-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 481, in nextClicked next = self.currentScreen.getNext () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/format_gui.py", line 21, in getNext rc = self.todo.fstab.checkFormatting(self.todo.intf.messageWindow) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 57, in checkFormatting if preexisting and isValidExt2(drive): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 38, in isValidExt2 buf = os.read(fd, 2048) OSError: [Errno 5] Chyba vstupu/v}stupu Local variables in innermost frame: file: /tmp/hdd1 device: hdd1 fd: 17 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 NsS'setupFilesystems' p5 I1 sS'monitorVsync' p6 S'' sS'videoCardStateNode' p7 S'' sS'serial' p8 I0 sS'ddruidReadOnly' p9 I0 sS'bootdisk' p10 I0 sS'videoRamState' p11 S'' sS'monitorOriginalName' p12 S'' sS'language' p13 (itodo Language (dp14 S'langInfoByName' p15 (dp16 S'Arabic (Yemen)' p17 (S'ar_YE' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Argentina)' p18 (S'es_AR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Italian (Italy)' p19 (S'it_IT@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Lebanon)' p20 (S'ar_LB' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Guatemala)' p21 (S'es_GT' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Malay (Malaysia)' p22 (S'ms_MY' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)' p23 (S'ar_LY' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Oman)' p24 (S'ar_OM' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Iraq)' p25 (S'ar_IQ' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Kuwait)' p26 (S'ar_KW' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'English (South Africa)' p27 (S'en_ZA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'French (Switzerland)' p28 (S'fr_CH' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Bahrein)' p29 (S'ar_BH' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Croatian' p30 (S'hr_HR' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'French (France)' p31 (S'fr_FR@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Greenlandic (Greenland)' p32 (S'kl_GL' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Korean (Republic of Korea)' p33 (S'ko_KR.euckr' S'iso01' S'lat0-16' tsS'Ukrainian' p34 (S'uk_UA' S'koi8-u' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Mexico)' p35 (S'es_MX' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Greek' p36 (S'el_GR' S'iso07' S'gr.f16' tsS'Spanish (El Salvador)' p37 (S'es_SV' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Peru)' p38 (S'es_PE' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Honduras)' p39 (S'es_HN' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Costa Rica)' p40 (S'es_CR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Denmark)' p41 (S'en_DK' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Dutch (Netherlands)' p42 (S'nl_NL@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Serbian (Yugoslavia)'