Bug 82557
| Summary: | Anaconda allows too many partitions on scsi disks | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | michael_h_jang, mitr |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-07-30 23:08:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 79579, 100644 | ||
Matt - why does parted let us do this? I see similar behavior with IDE hard disks. Fixed in CVS Closing out some bugs that have been in MODIFIED state. Please reopen if they persist. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030121 Description of problem: Disk druid allows one to create unlimited number of partitions on a SCSI-disk and ignores the fact that there are only 15 minor numbers allocated to each whole disk. Eg, you create partitions sda1-15 (oh and for some reason it never created /dev/sda15 node) and then sixteenth, which in major:minor numbers means sdb the whole disk.. etc. Funny things start happening. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up to and including 8.0.93-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run anaconda on a system with a SCSI-disk 2. Create at least >= 16 partitions on the SCSI-disk 3. Try to continue installation Actual Results: One starts getting errors like: "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda18 - invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda18 untill you reboot - so you shoudn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting." Trying to continue installation will result in crash: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 919, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 149, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 761, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 155, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 222, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 454, in turnOnFilesystems diskset.savePartitions () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 595, in savePartitions disk.commit() error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda18 - Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda18 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. After rebooting, parted thinks there *are* 18 partitions on that disk.. & other funny things. Expected Results: It should stop allowing adding new partitions when it can't allocate them. Additional info: The same thing would probably happen with IDE too, only there the limit is higher (I didn't have the stamina to create 64 partitions to try it). Hmm.. not sure if this should be fixed in anaconda or parted - I guess parted should know about the scsi-limitation as well?