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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Description of problem: Server is PPC64, currently has RHEL3 with 2.4.21-6.EL kernel. Tried to upgrade to RHEL4 alpha 4 using this CD images: RHEL4-Alpha4-RC-re0722.0-ppc-as-disc1-ftp.iso RHEL4-Alpha4-RC-re0722.0-ppc-as-disc2-ftp.iso RHEL4-Alpha4-RC-re0722.0-ppc-as-disc3-ftp.iso RHEL4-Alpha4-RC-re0722.0-ppc-as-disc4-ftp.iso Bootted from disk 1 and the installation program checked that the CD was fine. Chose to upgrade "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 (sda3)" on this screen: +----------------+ System to Upgrade +-----------------+ | | | One or more existing Linux installations have been | | found on your system. | | | | Please choose one to upgrade, or select 'Reinstall | | System' to freshly install your system. | | | | Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 (sda3) | | Reinstall System | | | | +----+ +------+ | | | OK | | Back | | | +----+ +------+ | | | | | +------------------------------------------------------+ Some messages about packages being updated appear. Then this screen pops up: +------------+ Exception Occurred +-------------+ | | | An unhandled exception has occurred. # | | This is most likely a bug. Please copy # | | the full text of this exception or save # | | the crash dump to a floppy then file a # | | detailed bug report against anaconda at # | | http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ # | | # | | Traceback (most recent call last): # | | File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1145, in # | | ? # | | intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) # | | File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line # | | | | +----+ +------+ +-------+ | | | OK | | Save | | Debug | | | +----+ +------+ +-------+ | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ I chose to Debug and the following was printed: 3.3.4.1 was Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1145, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 486, in run dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 237, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 701, in doPreInstall if method.systemMounted (id.fsset, instPath): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 200, in systemMounted isys.lochangefd("/tmp/loop", self.loopbackFile) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 118, in lochangefd _isys.lochangefd(loop, targ) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') > /usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py(121)lochangefd() -> os.close(targ) (Pdb) I've also tried to reinstall rather than upgrade and the same problem occurred. Only now it's also formatted my /boot partition and I can no longer access my old RHEL3 system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from CD 1 2.Choosing either to upgrade from RHEL3 OR to reinstall the system will produce the same problem Actual Results: The same "Exception Occurred" message appears. Expected Results: Install should continue Additional info:
Fix is in upstream kernel and should also be in current RHEL4 beta kernel.
Created attachment 103691 [details] output.txt
----- Additional Comments From alfredp@ca.ibm.com 2004-09-10 11:44 ------- output from lsvpd commands I was unable to access the WebASM menu of the squadron. But I got someone to install lsvpd on the machine. I ran the commands "lsvpd", "lscfg -v", and "lsmcode -A". But I'm still not sure which is the firmware level or if it's even displayed at all. I've put the results in the attached text file.
I suspect bugzilla confusion. Are these new additions really supposed to be related to the LOOPCHANGEFD bug which I think is now fixed?
No this is not related. Sorry. I created the attachment in the LTC bugzilla 10798, not knowing that the attachment would be created here also.
----- Additional Comments From salina@us.ibm.com 2004-09-10 13:55 ------- On my p630, lsvpd output shows *FC ???????? *DS Platform Firmware *RM 3R040602 *VK RS6K *YL U0.1-P1/Y1 *FC ???????? *DS System Firmware *RM RG040601_d76e10_sfw137 *VK RS6K *YL U0.1-P1/Y2 not seeing something like that in your output.
----- Additional Comments From salina@us.ibm.com 2004-09-10 13:56 ------- Alfred, thanks for all the info. Mike, I am adding you to cc list. Is there another lsvpd version we should be using to get the firmware level or is it under another tag ?
----- Additional Comments From strosake@us.ibm.com 2004-09-10 14:29 ------- If you can telnet to the system's FSP, you can cat /etc/DriverName to retrieve the firmware level. If you are at lsvpd level 0.12.1-1, running "lsmcode -r -d sys0" should print something along the lines of "sys0!system:SF220_043 (t) SF220_014 (p) SF220_043 (b)|service:11292004081881CF0681". You can also retrieve the currently booted firmware level from the OS with "cat /proc/device-tree/openprom/ibm,fw-vernum_encoded". Please let me know if lsmcode is not printing the FW level.
----- Additional Comments From alfredp@ca.ibm.com 2004-09-10 14:46 ------- Nothing was displayed when I ran "lsmcode -r -d sys0" as root. However, "cat /proc/device-tree/openprom/ibm,fw-vernum_encoded" displayed the following: SF220_006
----- Additional Comments From strosake@us.ibm.com 2004-09-10 15:09 ------- My guess is that lsvpd is not printing the FW level because it is unable to retrieve dynamic VPD. What level (if any) of ppc64-utils is installed on the system? (rpm -q ppc64-utils) SF220_006 looks like a really old FW level... that should certainly be updated.
----- Additional Comments From alfredp@ca.ibm.com 2004-09-10 15:14 ------- The ppc64-utils level is: ppc64-utils-0.9-0
----- Additional Comments From salina@us.ibm.com 2004-09-10 15:29 ------- We have upgraded to 34C and we can't install RHEL 4 Beta 1. That is why we have asked Alfred ( who managed to install tbe Beta 1 ) what FW level he is using.
----- Additional Comments From strosake@us.ibm.com 2004-09-10 15:58 ------- FYI, you should see the system firmware level using lsmcode if you install ppc64-utils 2.1-0... but you already got it from the device-tree, so I guess it's just academic.
----- Additional Comments From khoa@us.ibm.com 2004-09-19 23:51 EDT ------- I don't think this bug has been resolved yet, so I'd like to re-open this bug report. Thanks.
Can we fix the relationship between your bugzilla and this one please? This bug (RH #130465) was about the absence of the LOOPCHANGEFD ioctl, which is now believed to be fixed.
----- Additional Comments From mranweil@us.ibm.com 2004-12-16 11:24 EDT ------- The mirroring on this bug is messed up, I think, David from RH's side noticed that things seemed mixed up (and I can't tell - it's a mess). But this bug hasn't been updated in months. There's been a lot of installation fixes. The bug on RH is modified (thinks it's a different problem). I'm closing this, if you still have problems installing, please open a new bug. Sounds like at least part of the problem went away anyways.
changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REJECTED |CLOSED ------- Additional Comments From salina@us.ibm.com 2005-06-14 16:13 EDT ------- closing old problem
Closing this old bug that is in modified state. If this bug has not been resolved, please reopen it with new information.