Bug 598598
| Summary: | Unhandled exception attempting to resize extended partition in installer | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Pitkethly <vutnawgish> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 13 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vutnawgish | ||||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-06-06 16:43:02 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Created attachment 418740 [details]
anaconda-tb-* log from third occurrence
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Created attachment 418738 [details] Screenshot just before clicking OK and gettting the unhandled exception Description of problem: Whilst trying to increase the size of an extended partition to use some or all of the free space following it, an unhandled exception occurred: anaconda 13.42 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 309, in setPartitionGeometry start, end) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/parted/decorators.py", line 31, in localeC ret = fn(*args, **kwds) File "<string>", line 2, in setPartitionGeometry File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 1053, in _setTargetSize start=geometry.start, end=geometry.end) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 522, in <lambda> lambda s, v: s._setTargetSize(v), File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 244, in __init__ self.device.targetSize = newsize File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partition_dialog_gui.py", line 344, in run actions.append(ActionResizeDevice(request, size)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partition_gui.py", line 1682, in editPartition actions = parteditor.run() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partition_gui.py", line 1646, in editCB self.editPartition(device) PartitionException: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 13.42 How reproducible: It has occurred three times: once unexpectedly, and then again at each of two attempts to reproduce it. Steps to Reproduce: 1. My disk has two primary partitions, an extended partition and some free space. (Details are in the screenshot.) 2. Boot from Fedora-13-x86_64-Live CD and run Install to Hard Drive. Select keyboard. For type of devices to install to, choose Basic Storage Devices. Select the one drive. Enter computer name. Select timezone. Enter root password. For type of installation, choose Create Custom Layout. 3. Select sda3, the Extended partition. 4. Click Edit. 5. Select Resize. 6. Enter new size. The first two times, I entered 230659, chosen to take all the free space. The third time, I entered 180056, chosen to take half the free space, to see whether the problem is sensitive to the exact size. 7. On the third time through, I took a screenshot at this point. (See attachment.) 8. Click OK. Actual results: An unhandled exception window appears. Expected results: Either the screen updates to show the extended partion with the proposed new size or an error message explaining why this would be invalid appears. Additional info: Earlier, I had tried to add a new partition with size 10240 MB in the free space. It was allocated as primary partition sda4, even though I had not checked the Force to primary box. Then I tried to allocate another new partition and it was refused: not enough free space on disks. There was plenty of free space on the disk after sda4, but not in the extended partition. I reset the partition table and tried to resize the extended partition in hope of creating more logical partitions in it.