Bug 736527
| Summary: | anaconda fails to parse its own auto-generated kickstart file's partitioning ('tried to use undefined partition') | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Adam Williamson <awilliam> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Lehman <dlehman> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Whiteboard: | AcceptedNTH RejectedBlocker | ||
| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-16.18-1.fc16 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-09-19 23:51:37 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 Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 713565 | ||
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Description
Adam Williamson
2011-09-07 23:04:51 UTC
Looks like we need to sort these lines using either device dependencies, or maybe the action sorting, depending on whether it is action-based or device-based. Don't think dlehman's comment was meant to be private. Proposing as a beta blocker, though this is a slight borderline case, under the new criterion: "The installer must be able to successfully complete a scripted installation, using the installer's preferred scripting system, which duplicates the default interactive installation as closely as possible" borderline in that arguably 'as closely as possible' means 'using the generated anaconda-ks.cfg' without changes, but really, editing it and uncommenting the partition lines makes the kickstart *closer* to the default installation, in a way. We can debate it at the meeting, anyway. Adam, you can try this: http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates-736527.img It worked for me with a single-disk qemu install. What it does it make sure anaconda writes out the partitioning lines in anaconda-ks.cfg in a reasonable order. Discussed at the 2011-09-09 blocker review meeting. We agreed this doesn't quite meet the definition of "duplicates the default interactive installation as closely as possible" because it's really to do with the auto-generation of kickstarts by anaconda; if you were to create a kickstart to duplicate a default install *from scratch* you wouldn't run into this. So we're taking it as NTH not blocker. updates.img definitely produces better ordering, it gives: part.pv volgroup logvols part /boot part biosboot only thing that worries me there is the /boot and biosboot partitions being after the LV - you'd think it'd be the other way around - but I'll test to see if that actually causes a problem. well, the system installs and boots fine, so apparently it ain't a problem. confirming the fix, please commit! anaconda-16.18-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.18-1.fc16 Package anaconda-16.18-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing anaconda-16.18-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.18-1.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback). Confirming this fix made it into RC1 and looks to be working well. anaconda-16.18-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |