Bug 53859

Summary: Anaconda mounts half of RAID-0 (!) then crashes
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Andrew Pam <xanni>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2001-09-20 15:56:58 UTC Type: ---
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Anaconda crash dump
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/etc/fstab
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/etc/raidtab
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Output of fdisk -l none

Description Andrew Pam 2001-09-20 03:10:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
On a system running RAID-0, when upgrading from RH7.0 to 7.1 Anaconda
detected a partition containing an unused /usr directory structure.  It
mounts HALF THE STRIPE as a regular ext2 filesystem despite the fstab and
raidtab and then crashes.  rm -rf on the unused partition did not solve the
problem, but dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1 did.  :)

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Setup RAID-0 striped partitions.
2.  Discontinue use of a partition that had been used as /usr (switch to
another partition)
3.  Attempt a RedHat upgrade.
	

Actual Results:  Anaconda crashes.

Expected Results:  Install should proceed normally.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Andrew Pam 2001-09-20 03:11:36 UTC 
Created attachment 32163 [details]
Anaconda crash dump
Comment 2 Andrew Pam 2001-09-20 03:12:25 UTC 
Created attachment 32164 [details]
/etc/fstab
Comment 3 Andrew Pam 2001-09-20 03:12:57 UTC 
Created attachment 32165 [details]
/etc/raidtab
Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-09-20 15:22:35 UTC 
Can you post the output of 'fdisk -l' on the drive(s) in question?
Comment 5 Andrew Pam 2001-09-20 15:56:54 UTC 
Created attachment 32219 [details]
Output of fdisk -l
Comment 6 Brent Fox 2001-09-20 16:08:56 UTC 
Ah.  Raid partitions should be of type 0xfd (Linux raid auto), not type 0x83
(Linux).  The installer will do strange things if the Raid partitions are of the
wrong type.  This is a dupe of bug #16833

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16833 ***