Bug 598455

Summary:

anaconda fails to find storage on a machine with a single sata disk.

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Reporter:

Dan Kenigsberg <danken>

Component:

anaconda

Assignee:

Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>

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CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA

QA Contact:

Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>

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medium

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high

Version:

6.0

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hateya, hdegoede

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2010-06-16 18:58:42 UTC

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log of anaconda 13.21.48 showing the same behavior.	none

Description Dan Kenigsberg 2010-06-01 12:29:14 UTC

Description of problem:
I have a box with a single sata disk, on which I have installed RHEL6 many months ago. Unfortunately, the hard disk died, and I had to reinstall RHEL6 (after replacing the disk, of course).

From various media, anaconda kept dying when it was trying to find storage media. Its backtrace included cleardisks_gui.py:146 and gui.py:1388.
A little debuggin with pdb showed that the only disk (sda) was "hidden" and thus did not appear on the list of available disks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
At least on one occasion, I recorded that anaconda version is 13.21.20.5.

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2010-06-01 13:02:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> I have a box with a single sata disk, on which I have installed RHEL6 many
> months ago. Unfortunately, the hard disk died, and I had to reinstall RHEL6
> (after replacing the disk, of course).
> 
> From various media, anaconda kept dying when it was trying to find storage
> media. Its backtrace included cleardisks_gui.py:146 and gui.py:1388.
> A little debuggin with pdb showed that the only disk (sda) was "hidden" and
> thus did not appear on the list of available disks.
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> At least on one occasion, I recorded that anaconda version is 13.21.20.5.    

13.21.20.5 is quite old, please re-test with a recent snapshot. I expect you will then first get a warning that sda is part of an incomplete BIOS RAID set and thus ignored, and then an error dialog that no usable disks are found.

Comment 2 Dan Kenigsberg 2010-06-02 06:49:53 UTC

I've ask Haim to try out a newer rhel6 install iso (there's no faster way, isn't it?).

BTW, after entering Pdb, is there any way to un-raise the exception and continue installation?

Comment 3 Dan Kenigsberg 2010-06-02 12:21:47 UTC

Created attachment 419013 [details]
log of anaconda 13.21.48 showing the same behavior.

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2010-06-02 13:38:09 UTC

Hi,

Thanks for the log, but to pinpoint this we need all logfiles which can be found under /tmp from tty2, not just anaconda.log. So please try again and attach /tmp/*log here.

Regards,

Hans

Comment 5 David Cantrell 2010-06-16 18:58:42 UTC

If you can reproduce the problem and attach all the log files as described in comment 4, feel free to reopen the bug.

Comment 6 Dan Kenigsberg 2010-06-16 19:26:13 UTC

ֹFortunately for us, unfortunately for anaconda, we've replaced the disk, played with its sata cable, and installation went fine.