Bug 77447

Summary: Installer Crashes when Partitioning
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Steven Garwood <awebdesign>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Hardware: i386   
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Description Steven Garwood 2002-11-07 05:00:58 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)

Description of problem:
When it comes to the partitioning screen, I can select any of the options and 
the installer crashes and reboots.

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How reproducible:
Couldn't Reproduce


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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClicked
    self.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 57, in 
partitionObjectsInitialize
    partitions.setFromDisk(diskset)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 184, in setFromDisk
    lvm.vgscan()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 38, in vgscan
    raise SystemError, "vgscan failed"
SystemError: vgscan failed

Comment 1 Steven Garwood 2002-11-07 05:02:51 UTC
Created attachment 83925 [details]
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Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-11-07 18:19:36 UTC
Have you ever setup LVM on any of the drives in the system?

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-02 16:09:33 UTC
Closing due to inactivity, please reopen if you have additional information to add.

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:06 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.