Bug 491526
| Summary: | Maybe dumb question, but how to select swap partition in Anaconda? | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Miroslav Šustek <sustmidown> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, pjones, rmaximo, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
| Whiteboard: | anaconda_trace_hash:b3a67c16a1c1dd81569705ba08c7675879c19e0b0e2931a389cc969a4d134090 | ||||||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2009-03-23 22:40:49 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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Created attachment 336203 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.
anaconda-11.4.0.12 is a very old release at this point. Perhaps you are using an older local mirror, or a mirror that has not updated in several weeks. Can you please try with the latest rawhide and see if this problem is reproducable there? Thanks. Unable to reproduce on rawhide. I did an autopart install and a custom partitioning install and swap was created. I did an custom partition install. I have tried official mirror (fedora.redhat.com), too but with same results. Even though I followed the same procedure, it gave me the same results: this one and #489520: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=336210 . Maybe it was because of specific partition table. Then I solved my situation by deleting swap partitions. Anaconda asked whether to continue without swap (clicked YES) and everything gone well then. And after installation I enabled the swap manually. It is not best solution, but it works for me. (IMHO Anaconda (v11) is great and looks very user friendly, but has a few hidden bugs. Eg. unhandled exceptions almost every time you close a dialog window by escape key. And unhandled exceptions make whole installation worthless.) (In reply to comment #4) > Even though I followed the same procedure, it gave me the same results: > this one and #489520: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=336210 . I mean that with the same procedure it "randomly" gave me two different errors. I also tried to format to ext3, ext2, tried to format swap in Anaconda and always got one of these two errors. I'd like to help you, but I really don't know (without crunching through the source code) why "it does what it does and isn't supposed to do". :) |
The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 11.5.0.12 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/formats/__init__.py", line 282, in setup raise FormatSetupError("invalid device specification") File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/formats/swap.py", line 117, in setup DeviceFormat.setup(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 1356, in turnOnSwap device.format.setup() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 193, in turnOnFilesystems anaconda.id.storage.fsset.turnOnSwap(anaconda.intf) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 205, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 128, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1317, in nextClicked self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() FormatSetupError: invalid device specification