Bug 533797

Summary: autopartition doesn't handle correctly installation where the default layout leads to bigger partitions than disk available
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo <carenas>
Component: anacondaAssignee: David Lehman <dlehman>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: josdekloe, vanmeeuwen+fedora, yaneti
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-13.8-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2009-11-09 09:15:59 UTC 
Created attachment 368148 [details]
traceback report

Description of problem:
This is a subcase of BUG523610 where the disk available for installation is smaller than

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
12.46-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a 2GB volume for use through KVM
2. install fedora on it using a VM with 1G or more of memory allocated
3. select all defaults
  
Actual results:
an unhanded exception triggered that abort anaconda

Expected results:
autopartition works or shows a message to let the user do partitioning manually

Additional info:
the problem is that when autopartitioning is invoked the setDefaultPartitioning method in installclass.py will request for a root partition of 1GB, one /boot partition (outside of LVM) of 200MB and a swap partition of at least the same size of the memory, without taking into consideration the size of the physical devices available.

this will result in a negative value for vg.freeSpace for the main VolGroup which will break when passed to storage/partition.py's growLVM
Comment 1 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2009-11-09 09:42:52 UTC 
Created attachment 368152 [details]
proposed workaround for anaconda 12.46 (or later)

to easy testing, a patched anaconda 12.46 based updates.img available from :

  http://sajino.sajinet.com.pe/updates.img
Comment 2 David Lehman 2009-11-12 17:26:44 UTC 
A fix will be in anaconda-13.8. Thanks for the report.
Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 15:20:55 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 4 David Lehman 2009-11-18 15:54:06 UTC 
*** Bug 538229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 David Lehman 2010-02-04 23:37:49 UTC 
*** Bug 557389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***