Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111462
Installer crashed modifying partition information
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: Installing Redhat Enterprise Linux AS v3 on a PowerSpec 8192 system, the installer crashed while I was attempting to modify the proposed disk partition information. It said: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partition_gui.py", line 1033, in editCb self.editPartitionRequest(request) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partition_gui.py", line 1096, in editPartitionRequest raise RuntimeError, ("Returning partitions to state " RuntimeError: Returning partitions to state prior to edit failed I will attach the files it dumped to floppy. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
Created attachment 96325 [details] Ananconda dump log
Created attachment 96326 [details] syslog
Is this reproducible? What did you previously have on the system? What change were you making at the time of the traceback?
I was not able to reproduce this, although that may be because I don't recall exactly what steps I was going through. After the reboot I tried again (this time leaving out some of the intermediate fiddling with the partition table, since I had a better idea what end result I wanted), and it worked. My system used to dual-boot Windows XP and RedHat Linux 9. The existing Linux partitions were /boot, /, and swap. I started resizing the / partition (using PartitionMagic 8.0), but cancelled the operation while it was moving still data. This probably trashed the existing file systems, but should not have harmed the disk partition table. I then booted off the AS v3 CDs, selected "automatic partitioning" telling it to erase all the existing Linux partitions, and was tweaking the results. The manual changes were to split the large '/' partition into three parts ('/', '/opt', and '/home'). I believe the crash occurred while I was shrinking one of the new partitions to make space for another. If it matters I get persistent warnings that the partitions are not aligned properly and may not boot on older systems, but I ignore them because my BIOS doesn't seem to have a problem. The system disk is ~120G, currently split like this: Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-114498.562 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 2 0.031 39.221 primary fat32 hidden 1 39.252 14496.152 primary ntfs boot 3 14496.152 14598.127 primary ext3 4 14598.127 114494.501 extended lba 5 14598.158 30984.741 logical ext3 6 30984.772 47371.354 logical ext3 7 47371.386 113466.906 logical ext3 8 113466.938 114494.501 logical linux-swap
This should be fixed in CVS now.