From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030912 Description of problem: on installing rh9 and optng for 'autopartition' the install falls over with an advisory that it's probably a bug and to please save the dump and send it on in - also says it's (my words) an unexpected system error i.e. not allowed for in the code's error handler - I've copied the dump into 'additonal information' further on down - I tried re-running the install several times & then opting for the 'autopartion' route but each time it fell over and it was always when I tried to edit one of the partitions that it presented me with - upto what it thought was the best config it was aok - the problem always occurred when I tried to edit the config - in the end I got round the problem by re-running the install and going down the 'disk druid' route - guess I was just being lazy ininitally opting for 'autopartition' - rh9 then installed aok Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run install 2.opt for autopartition 3.edit one of the partitions it (autopartition) comes bsack with 4.install falls over Actual Results: through out the advisory saying it was 'probably' a bug asked me to hit the presented 'save' button and to forward the dump to you - see 'additional information' for the dump Expected Results: I was trying to edit the partion size of one of the partitions autopartion came back - which it let me do but when I then hit the 'ok' button it went belly up Additional info: your server says my report is too long - I'll try and get the dump to you as anattachment as advised when I get your confirmation of bug receipt email
Created attachment 94517 [details] autopartion falls over reporting it's 'probably a bug' & to save and forward the dump both the file name and file content are as created by your dump process
Could you add to this report the original partition table (fdisk -l output is fine) and then a list step-by-step of what you did in disk druid to cause this failure. We are not able to reproduce it on our machines.
Created attachment 94685 [details] requested fdisk -l dump dump of fdisk -l as requested in your recent email
Created attachment 94686 [details] step-by-step thru Automatic Partitioning until the problem occurs step-by-step thru Automatic Partitioning until the problem occurs as requested in your recent email
This looks like it should be better in our newer releases.