Anaconda crashes and burns when arriving at the hard drive partitioning when doing a hard drive install from my external USB/firewire drive (250 GB maxtor).
Created attachment 94767 [details] debug file saved to floppy by anaconda please make it possible to save to something else soon, floppies are hard to find.
Fixed in CVS. The dump is also in /tmp/anacdump.txt and you have scp to be able to get it off the box.
One of my systems did not even get to the partitioning stage. Attempted to install from an external 120GB drive in a USB2.0 enclosure to a SCSI hard drive on an IBM ServeRAID controller. Anaconda crashed just after it started up X. Probing for video card: ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC Probing for monitor type: Unknown monitor Probing for mouse type: Generic - Wheel Mouse (PS/2) Attempting to start native X server Waiting for X server to start...log located in /tmp/X.log 1...2...3...4...5.... X server started successfully. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 996, in ? rootPath) File "/usr/bin/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 208, in __init__ self.mountDirectory() File "/usr/bin/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 89, in mountDirectory readOnly = 1); File "/usr/bin/anaconda/isys.py", line 162, in mount rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly, bindMount, remount) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') install exited abnormally I suspect that this may be because usb-storage is treated as a scsi controller. I booted from floppy, it loaded usb-storage, I selected language and keyboard layout, it loaded isp and usb-storage (again), I selected loading files from hard drive (/dev/sda1). Given that my SCSI hard drive (internal) should be sda after the O/S is installed having the USB drive load first will be a problem. I then moved the USB drive to a non-SCSI system and got the same results as Trond - anaconda crashed at partitioning stage.
test3 gets past partitioning stage on my non-SCSI system but fails during install of openoffice (claiming corrupted image or out of space [certainly not that - I doubled disk allocation and got same error]). Need to do more testing to see what is happening - will try from IDE instead of USB to confirm not USB problem.
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