Bug 80905

Summary: Install crashes when loading vgscan stuff
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Roger Billau <billau>
Component: installerAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 8.0   
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Hardware: athlon   
OS: Linux   
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Description Roger Billau 2003-01-02 04:13:55 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
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

Local variables in innermost frame:
rc: 24320


Dispatcher instance, containing members:
method: CdromInstallMethod instance, containing members:
  messageWindow: <bound method InstallInterface.messageWindow of 
<gui.InstallInterface instance at 0x867a9d4>>


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install RedHat 8
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Actual Results:  Error message see above discription

Expected Results:  Red hat install with out problems

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2003-01-02 13:52:22 UTC
please attach the full error crash dump (save to floppy)


Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-01-27 18:01:25 UTC
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to
add to the report.