Bug 67917
| Summary: | Hard disc install fails | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Michael Young <m.a.young> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | limbo | CC: | hattenator+bugzilla, wtogami | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2002-07-24 18:37:03 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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| Bug Blocks: | 67217 | ||||||||
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Description
Michael Young
2002-07-04 10:17:26 UTC
Created attachment 63666 [details]
Anaconda dump
The same crash happened to me as well. Fortunately, I had the isos in a separate partition, so I edited it out of /etc/fstab, and the installation continued ok. I also observed the text install colors to be awkward. Yeah, I got the same problem. I think I'll install from CD instead anyway. What it seems is happening is that when the installer asks where the ISOs are, it mounts that volume. Then when it goes to read your hard drive for packages to install, it reads the fstab, and blindly mounts everything it can find in there. Then the mount function complains that the volume with the CDs is already mounted. Then the whole installer crashes. So the fix would be something like going into the anaconda scripts and either 1. Add a check before mounting any FS to see if its already mounted 2. Store the ISO partition in a variable, and when you pull the partitions out of the fstab, ignore that particular one. 3. Get the installer to ignore the error and continue, considering that it probably won't impact anything (probably the worst solution). I would like to add that it crashed on me too doing a *CD* based upgrade. I changed my fstab file and it fixed the problem. diff fstab fstab.old --------------------- < /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 --- > #/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 11a14 > # 13c16 < /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 --- > #/dev/hdb6 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 0 My CD based attempt to go from 7.3 to limbo also crashed but as far as I can see from the dump at a different point. Sorry don't know how to try to fix it. Colours seemed ok though. Created attachment 64964 [details]
anaconda crash dump
Fixed. Fix confirmed. Successfully upgraded from isos stored on the root filesystem. CLOSED->RAWHIDE Time tracking values updated |