Bug 72260

Summary: Installer crashes with an unhandled exception when partitioning new drive
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Larry Smith <lds1>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.3   
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The dump file created from the error none

Description Larry Smith 2002-08-22 14:44:54 UTC
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Description of problem:
when using autopartition I get an unhandled exception error that tells me to save the dump file to a floppy disk and to come here for help.
 
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Platform: Alli386alphasparcnoarchia64i586i686sparc64sparcv9alphaev6s/390athlonarm7arm9am31am33mips32mips64mipstx39mipstx49mipsrm7000mipsnecvr4xxxpowerpcsh3sh4sparclitestrongarmv850xscaleothersynths390xparisc11  Component Text:   
Priority: highnormallow  Severity: securityhighnormallowenhancementtranslation  
    

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. restart installation
2. accept the defaults
3. select autopartition
	

Actual Results:  I get an unhandled exception error that tells me to save the dump file to a floppy disk and to come here for help.

Expected Results:  autopartition should partition the drive and continue with installation.


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Comment 1 Larry Smith 2002-08-22 14:51:21 UTC
Created attachment 72264 [details]
The dump file created from the error

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-22 16:21:51 UTC
There are tons of read errors from /dev/hda. It looks like the drive may be bad.