Bug 540808
| Summary: | PartitionException: Can't have overlapping partitions. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | info <info> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Lehman <dlehman> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 12 | CC: | kiosso, mnzchs-evry1, Per.t.Sjoholm, vanmeeuwen+fedora, zolko.m |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | anaconda_trace_hash:1f1fa21669671e4dc28caf6acf1a17096ac7018d9cacafed71cc0d3ad82d09ee | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-06-08 16:34:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Created attachment 373360 [details]
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This error happened when trying to install Fedora 12 (x86) on a laptop that still contained two nfts partitions. There are some peculiarities in this setup that may be important for this bug: * The first ntfs partition is /dev/sda1 (primary partition). This is a Windows XP setup. Nothing special here. * The second partition is /dev/sda2 (primary partition) and is a Windows recovery partition. This partition however is located at the end of the drive. * Between these two sits a windows extended partition that occupies all free space. The extended partition used to hold one logical partition, but this one was deleted via the Windows disk management tool. The extended partition remained. Here's what fdisk says for this drive: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Disk identifier: 0xca0aca0a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 4877 36870088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 9281 10337 7990920 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 4878 9280 33286680 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition table entries are not in disk order Next, I'll give you all the steps I took to get here: * Boot from the F12 installation dvd (32bit edition) * Follow the normal installation steps until the partitioning step * For partitioning, choose "Use free space" and check "Review partitioning layout" * I left most of the default layout, but shrunk the root lv to 10Gb, and added a partition for /home using the remaining free space on the volume group. * Confirm to write changes to disk * An error pops up, and I'm invited to report it as a bug. I'm not sure what triggered the bug. I see two obvious candidates: * The extended partition that's still there, while being empty (shouldn't the boot partition be a primary partition ?) * The fact that the partition entries are not in disk order. I tested some more. It turns out anaconda tripped over the existence of the empty logical partition. I removed it using fdisk and after that, the next partitioning attempt using anaconda worked fine. *** Bug 541009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Created attachment 387154 [details]
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Restarted installation and it worked.
Noted that the partions ended on a not even boundery and I hade free space at the end
There were several issues with handling of pre-existing extended partitions, particularly empty ones. They have been addressed as of anaconda-13.39-1.fc13 (for Fedora 13) and anaconda-14.5-1.fc14 (for current rawhide and Fedora 14). |
The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 12.46 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 202, in addPartition constraint.getPedConstraint()) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/parted/decorators.py", line 30, in localeC ret = fn(*args, **kwds) File "<string>", line 2, in addPartition File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/formats/disklabel.py", line 240, in addPartition constraint=constraint) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 1158, in create self.disk.format.addPartition(self.partedPartition) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 205, in execute self.device.create(intf=intf) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 708, in processActions action.execute(intf=self.intf) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 275, in doIt self.devicetree.processActions() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 110, in turnOnFilesystems anaconda.id.storage.doIt() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 200, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 123, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1195, in nextClicked self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() PartitionException: Can't have overlapping partitions.