Bug 828114

Created attachment 589089 [details]
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Updating from F16 to F17 lead to a fatal error:

The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 17.29 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 702, in _preSetup
    raise DeviceError("device has not been created", self.name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 718, in setup
    if not self._preSetup(orig=orig):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 2012, in _parseOneLine
    device.setup()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 2112, in parseFSTab
    device = self._parseOneLine((devspec, mountpoint, fstype, options, dump, passno))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 1676, in mountExistingSystem
    fsset.parseFSTab(anaconda=anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/upgrade.py", line 178, in upgradeMountFilesystems
    mountExistingSystem(anaconda, anaconda.upgradeRoot[0], allowDirty = 0)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 383, in dispatch
    self.dir = self.steps[self.step].target(self.anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 88, in return_false
    func(*args, **kwargs)
DeviceError: ('device has not been created', '//10.0.0.203/cri2011')


The problem is that the following Windows share entries in /etc/fstab were not ignored:

//10.0.0.203/cri2011 /mnt/IASMA003_NEWCRI cifs user,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.10.0.0.203.netelerm,uid=neteler,file_mode=0664,user_xattr,dir_mode=0775 0 0
//10.0.0.203/SCAMBIA /mnt/IASMA003_SCAMBIA cifs user,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.10.0.0.203.netelerm,uid=neteler,file_mode=0664,user_xattr,dir_mode=0775 0 0
...


Solution:
I copied the /etc/fstab file to /etc/fstab.mybackup, then removed the entries from /etc/fstab and rebooted to successfully upgrade the system.

See related bugs in bug #825500, bug #827470, bug #826492, bug #823048