Bug 495855

Summary: Text mode partitioning failed
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: A.J. Werkman <aj.werkman>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: medium    
Version: rawhideCC: anaconda-maint-list, pjones, rmaximo, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: anaconda_trace_hash:dde4bc5a237d71ed18887d8caebf9cdfeea330ab43b886f6d0b3783a5b5b6c79
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Last Closed: 2009-04-15 13:56:16 UTC Type: ---
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Description A.J. Werkman 2009-04-15 06:43:09 UTC
The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 11.5.0.44 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 667, in _addDevice
    if newdev.path in [d.path for d in self._devices]:
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1091, in addUdevDiskDevice
    self._addDevice(device)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1159, in addUdevDevice
    device = self.addUdevDiskDevice(info)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1588, in populate
    self.addUdevDevice(dev)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 288, in reset
    self.devicetree.populate()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 101, in storageInitialize
    storage.reset()
  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/text.py", line 701, in run
    anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 966, in <module>
    anaconda.intf.run(anaconda)
ValueError: object comparing to must be a _ped.DiskType

Comment 1 A.J. Werkman 2009-04-15 06:43:15 UTC
Created attachment 339632 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.

Comment 2 A.J. Werkman 2009-04-15 06:47:22 UTC
On anaconda 11.5.0.44 I tried a text mode installation on two blanked out disks with no partitioning information.
I blanked them with dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=10 of=/dev/sd[a,b]

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2009-04-15 13:56:16 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495713 ***