Bug 85066

Summary: exception occured during disk partitioning
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Francisco Jorge <franjorge>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Francisco Jorge 2003-02-25 09:15:20 UTC
Description of problem:

When trying to partition the disk with disk-druid, anaconda says that onother 
partitioning tool has wrongly partitioned the disk, but it gives me the option 
of ignoring this error. I ignore it, but then I get the following error:

+-------------+ Exception Occurred +-------------+               
               |                                                |               
               | An unhandled exception has occurred.  This   # |               
               | is most likely a bug.  Please copy the full  # |               
               | text of this exception or save the crash     # |               
               | dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug    # |               
               | report against anaconda at                   # |               
               | http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/         # |               
               |                                              # |               
               | Traceback (most recent call last):           # |               
               |   File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 694, in ?   # |               
               |     intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)   # |               
               |   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line     # |               
               | 446, in run   
     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                 


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How reproducible:
Have not tried to reproduce it

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Actual results:
Disk won't get formatted

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Comment 1 Francisco Jorge 2003-02-25 12:09:32 UTC
I have found the problem. I was using an installation kernel without LVM 
support. I have built a new kernel with LVM support and the error dissappeared.