Bug 738372

Summary: Installer fails with "FormatDestroyError: error wiping old signatures from /dev/sda-1: 1"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew Schultz <ajschult784>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Andrew Schultz 2011-09-14 16:03:43 UTC 
Created attachment 523192 [details]
abrt log

Description of problem:
Installer from the live image fails attempting to initialize partitions.  I've attached the abrt.log.  The log mentions "/dev/sda-1: 1" I'm not sure of the syntax there but /dev/sda1 is a 100MB windows system partition and I did not tell the installer to use or format sda1.  sda2 is also a windows partition.  I told the installer to use the rest of the space (400GB) and let it divide it up into partitions the way it wanted to.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16-Beta.TC2/Live/x86_64/Fedora-16-Beta-TC-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso

How reproducible:
tried twice, happened both times.
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2011-09-15 14:21:19 UTC 
Please attach /tmp/anaconda-tb-* to this bug report.  Thanks.
Comment 2 Andrew Schultz 2011-09-15 17:01:11 UTC 
Created attachment 523414 [details]
anaconda log

it looks like this is all attempts.  I think I exited a time or two myself, but other than that, each attempt had this problem.
Comment 3 Andrew Schultz 2011-09-17 18:47:23 UTC 
http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates-737532.img fixed this problem for me.  Anaconda was able to format the create and format the partitions properly and finish the install.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 737532 ***