Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 103733
kickstart crash when installing on existing LVM logical volume
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:22 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.11 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030708 Description of problem: I am using kickstart to install Severn on LVM logical volumes. The first installation performs well. PV (hda2), VG (phnpcg208) and LVs (root, usr, var, ... ) are created and formated. The second time, I try to reinstall over the same LVs and not format /dev/phnpcg208/local. Here are the kickstart files that I use Install -------- clearpart --linux part /boot --size 16 --fstype ext2 --asprimary part pv.02 --size 1 --grow --noformat volgroup phnpcg208 pv.02 logvol / --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=300 --name=root --fstype ext3 logvol swap --vgname=phnpcg208 --size 128 --name=swap logvol /usr --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=2500 --name=usr --fstype ext3 logvol /tmp --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=300 --name=tmp --fstype ext3 logvol /var --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=300 --name=var --fstype ext3 logvol /usr/local --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=1 --grow --name=local --fstype ext3 Re-install -------- part /boot --onpart=hda1 --size 16 --fstype ext2 part pv.02 --onpart=hda2 --size 1 --grow --noformat volgroup phnpcg208 pv.02 logvol / --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=300 --name=root --fstype ext3 logvol swap --vgname=phnpcg208 --size 128 --name=swap logvol /usr --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=2500 --name=usr --fstype ext3 logvol /tmp --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=300 --name=tmp --fstype ext3 logvol /var --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=300 --name=var --fstype ext3 logvol /usr/local --vgname=phnpcg208 --size=1 --grow --name=local --fstype ext3 --noformat Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.0.93-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kickstart Severn on LVM logical volume with option clearpart 2. kickstart using the existing partions without clearpart Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1025, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 674, in run self.icw.run (self.runres, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1415, in run self.setup_window(runres) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1387, in setup_window self.setScreen () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1053, in setScreen (step, args) = self.dispatch.currentStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 273, in currentStep self.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 168, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 236, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 95, in partitioningComplete entry = request.toEntry(partitions) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partRequests.py", line 166, in toEntry device = self.getDevice(partitions) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partRequests.py", line 716, in getDevice pvs.append(partitions.getRequestByID(pv).getDevice(partitions)) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getDevice' Expected Results: formating /dev/phnpcg208/root, /dev/phnpcg208/usr, /dev/phnpcg208/var, /dev/phnpcg208/var presevering /dev/phnpcg208/local installing Additional info: If kickstart contains the option upgrade instead of install then it does not crash With a manual installation (without kickstart), I am able to select the pre existing LV and perform the re-installation. If I replace the directives : logvol by part (part / --onpart=phnpcg208/root --fstype ext3, ...) then anaconda stops saying that /dev/phnpcg208/root does not exist. Even I add a %pre script : vgscan vgchange -ay
Created attachment 94201 [details] dump of anaconda anacdump.txt
You need to add --useexisting to your volgroup and logvol lines to reuse preexisting volume groups and logical volumes.