Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10381
Software RAID upgrade RH61 -> RH62 not working
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:55 EDT
Tried to upgrade RH 6.1 with software RAID up to RH 6.2 'Zoot' final. Both text and graphical mode installer hangs when 'Finding packages to upgrade...'. Text mode installer crashes and graphical one just hangs. Text mode installer shows a debug window and when selected Debug, it showed the following lines: > /usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py(705)readFstab() -> fields[2], raidByDev[int(fields[0][7:])]) Reported the same bug here in Bugzilla for RH 6.1.92 beta and then the case was closed as 'resolved'. Well, it4s not. Tried to query the bug-id, but didn't success. The whole report has disapperared. BTW, any chance to grab debug info text into a file on a floppy disk when installer crashes ? Too much text to write down in that debug window. Regards, Jussi, jt@iki.fi
I am unable to reproduce the problem ... I tried two i386 6.1 -> 6.2 upgrades (both 6.1 GNOME workstation installs), one with / on a native ext2 (and other raided partitions) and one with / on a raided ext2, both upgrades succeeded in GUI mode ...
Found my previous bug report for RH 6.1.92 about this same problem. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9331 There you find disks and partitins on this problematic host. Then the reason for problem was bigger RAID5 volume than the installer understood. Perhaps it's still the same or perhaps not. Anyway this host is up and running RH 6.1 without any problems. There's no mess in /etc/fstab. Cannot say why installer can't initialize fstab. Regards, Jussi, jt@iki.fi
duplicated in the test lab using a random scsi card & drives on test166 ... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9331 ***
This was not a duplicate. A fix is available at ftp://people.redhat.com/ewt/raid-fix. You need to do the following: 1) Download the proper boot disk for your setup 2) Download raid-fix.img (an anaconda updates disk) 3) Write both disks to floppies 4) Boot the boot disk with "linux updates" at the boot prompt 5) Use the raid-fix.img disk as the updates disk (you will be prompted for this before anaconda is run) This should fix the problem. Please let us know what happens either way.
Thanks ! Now the system was upgraded without a single problem. Used text mode installer 'linux text updates'. Regards, Jussi, jt@iki.fi
Problem solved by given instructions.
I've had the same problem as reported in this bug-report, and I've tested the default image coming with 6.2, the 20000407 upgrade, the RawHide version and the one mentioned above. All give the same error when scanning the disks for installed system. I'm upgrading a v6.1 to v6.2, the system is a dual P3 with software raid 0+1. The errors reported (text upgrade) is something like `invalid mount option'. This happens for all the e2fs partitions in the array. A debug trace is then shown and the installer exits when pressing ok. Also, after the upgrade attempt, the disks has to be fsck'ed when booting the old 6.1 system. Is there any other way to do the upgrade? I seriously need to upgrade the system, as 6.1 has some nasty deadlock and signal bugs when running threaded programs (which are removed in 6.2).
Can you give us details on the traceback you are getting?