Bug 683873

Summary: --onpart/--ondisk doesn't work - could not allocate requested partitions
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority: high    
Version: 6.1   
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Bug Blocks: 621515, 670159    
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Description Alexander Todorov 2011-03-10 14:55:09 UTC
Created attachment 483471 [details]
anaconda.log

Description of problem:
When trying to reprovision a RHEL6.1 system using the --onpart/--ondisk parameters I get an error and install stops.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-13.21.104-1.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a KVM domU with 2 virtio disks where /boot, swap and / are on vda1 and /mydata on vda2. Write down the symlinks in /dev/disk/by-path. 
2. Reinstall the same system using ks.cfg:

bootloader --location=mbr
clearpart --none

part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=1024 --ondisk=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:05.0-virtio-pci-virtio1
part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:05.0-virtio-pci-virtio1
part / --fstype=ext4 --size=500 --grow --ondisk=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:05.0-virtio-pci-virtio1

part /mydata --fstype=ext4 --onpart=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:06.0-virtio-pci-virtio2-part1 --noformat --size=500 --grow

3.
  
Actual results:
An error - Could not allocate requested partitions.

Expected results:
System is reinstalled. /mydata is intact.

Additional info:
See attached log files.

Comment 1 Alexander Todorov 2011-03-10 14:55:40 UTC
Created attachment 483472 [details]
program.log

Comment 2 Alexander Todorov 2011-03-10 14:55:51 UTC
Created attachment 483473 [details]
storage.log

Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2011-03-10 14:55:58 UTC
Created attachment 483474 [details]
syslog

Comment 4 David Lehman 2011-03-10 15:37:39 UTC
Your vda is completely full of partitions. You specify clearpart --none and then proceed to try to allocate three partitions on the same (full) disk of sizes 500, 1024, 1024. Of course it fails.