Bug 103552 - Error during format: /tmp/sda6 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here
Summary: Error during format: /tmp/sda6 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-02 09:05 UTC by Juhani Jaakola
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-10-16 01:01:43 UTC
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Description Juhani Jaakola 2003-09-02 09:05:54 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When formatting partitions, the text-mode installer gives error message "An 
error occurred trying to format sda6. This problem is serious and the 
installer cannot continue."

Sda6 is the swap partition of size 2 GB.

The last two lines in virtual screen Ctrl-Alt-F5 are:

  mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
  /tmp/sda6 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!

Before that the installer has successfully formatted a boot partition.

In virtual screen Ctrl-Alt-F4 the last line is:

  <6>Adding Swap: 2096220k swap-space (priority -1)


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How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-09-02 21:57:24 UTC 
To reproduce this issue we'll need to know in some detail what steps you took to
get to the point it failed, as we haven't seen this happen before.
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-10-16 01:01:43 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have any further information to
add to this bug report
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