Bug 53414

Summary: upgrade fails while lilo configuration
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <stefan>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2001-09-24 16:55:16 UTC Type: ---
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Description Need Real Name 2001-09-08 11:22:13 UTC
Description of Problem:
using standard upgrade facility from halloween redhat 7.1
boot from cdrom, everything is fine until I have to choice a lilo
configuration.
1st choice: deselecting lilo configuration ends with an unknown label
"NONE" and reboot after ok.

2nd choice: selecting lilo configuration ends with empty partitionlist and
reboot after ok.

While the first walk through a lack of swap was detected but I could add a
swap file
Also everytime anaconda looks for installed versions I have to skip over
hda, which is true, because I boot and live on sda and use hda only as a
big disk storage. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
just the uncustomized upgrade to 7.1 without any options

How Reproducible:
every time by pressing the default and most obvious buttons :((

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:
I want to upgrade with creating a boot floppy and NO lilo configuration.
There is time enough later to tell liloconf which disk=/dev/sda gets
bios=0x80 ;)

Additional Information:
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/lilo_gui.py", line 101,
in getNext
    self.todo.lilo.setDefault(default)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 483, in
setDefault
    raise IndexError, "unknown lilo label %s" % (default,)
IndexError: unknown lilo label None

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <lilo.LiloConfiguration instance at 820c008>
default: None

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<failed>

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-09-08 11:38:45 UTC
regarding bug 51122, which looks similar to mine
I have definitely no other operating system installed
My existing and running lilo.conf is:
boot=/dev/sda
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=lix
 
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=lix
        read-only
        root=/dev/sda2

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-09-12 18:30:27 UTC
What do you mean by 'halloween redhat 7'?

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-09-16 17:47:27 UTC
Hi,
it's a RedHat 7.1 burnt on CD by ixsoft (a german company). Give my a hint, who
I can give your more details about the distribution. I don't think, this is the
root cause of my problem.
I fixed my installation for now by running the installation via network. First I
had to copy both installation CDs, but that worked fine in the laptop
installation and workstation installation mode. In this mode I got for the first
time the recommendation, to have more than 250 MB on /. Can this cause the error
message I got? Sounds crazy to me.
Thanx for your interest

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-09-24 16:55:12 UTC
It is possible that you could see strange behavior if you tried to use less than
250MB on / because the kernel can run out of inodes, which will cause the kernel
to not be able to create any new files, although free space is still available.  

I'm not sure what the original problem was, but are things working ok now?