Bug 760574

Summary: IOException: Input/output error during write on /dev/sda
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: rawhideCC: anaconda-maint-list, benl, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: anaconda_trace_hash:3d36dc229b3f9fc688bd39f06d10ec17381720c01e78f48e3479f3d467a372ee
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Last Closed: 2011-12-06 18:15:25 UTC Type: ---
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Attached traceback automatically from anaconda. none

Description Chandrasekar Kannan 2011-12-06 14:40:30 UTC
The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 14.22 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 213, in commit
    return self.__disk.commit()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/parted/decorators.py", line 31, in localeC
    ret = fn(*args, **kwds)
  File "<string>", line 2, in commit
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/formats/disklabel.py", line 248, in commit
    self.partedDisk.commit()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/formats/disklabel.py", line 227, in create
    self.commit()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 290, in execute
    options=self.device.formatArgs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 700, in processActions
    action.execute(intf=self.intf)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 313, in doIt
    self.devicetree.processActions()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packages.py", line 110, in turnOnFilesystems
    anaconda.storage.doIt()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 212, in moveStep
    rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 131, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 235, in currentStep
    self.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/text.py", line 500, in run
    (step, instance) = anaconda.dispatch.currentStep()
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 901, in <module>
    anaconda.intf.run(anaconda)
IOException: Input/output error during write on /dev/sda

Comment 1 Chandrasekar Kannan 2011-12-06 14:40:36 UTC
Created attachment 541421 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2011-12-06 18:15:25 UTC
You have a huge number of errors in your syslog when attempting to access sda, which is indicative of either a kernel error or hardware failure.  Either way, there's nothing anaconda can do about this.