Bug 51311

Summary: Installation failure with anaconda dump
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jo Pan <jos_pan>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: high    
Version: 7.0CC: jos_pan
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2001-08-09 12:49:23 UTC Type: ---
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dump file saved to disk bye install program before crash none

Description Jo Pan 2001-08-09 12:40:10 UTC
Description of Problem:
Was in the last step of  new installation of Red Hat Linux/Intel 7.0 
(Guinness)
Installation program was going to write to hard disk in the end when it 
crashed. 

I have a Win98/pentium already installed.

Linux swap partion in primary partion
Linux in extened partion


How Reproducible:
Every in the last step of installation the error occurs.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Come to the last stage of installation when final write to 
hard disk is about to take place
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:
The install progam suggested dumping info to floppy before crash.
Info given below

BEGIN DUMP

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", 
line 20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in 
doInstall
    self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath)
  File "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems
    raise SystemError, (errno, msg)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Local variables in innermost frame:
size: 5309451
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8202858>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 0
errno: 22
device: hda7
instPath: /mnt/sysimage
mntpoint: /

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>
	
END DUMP

Comment 1 Jo Pan 2001-08-09 12:49:17 UTC
Created attachment 26995 [details]
dump file saved to disk  bye install program before crash

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-08-10 03:05:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16686 ***