Bug 134575 - anaconda fails on system with lots of disks
Summary: anaconda fails on system with lots of disks
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-04 18:17 UTC by Jesse Barnes
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-14 17:30:00 UTC
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Description Jesse Barnes 2004-10-04 18:17:06 UTC 
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Description of problem:
In trying to install on a system with 130 disks, I get this backtrace:
Starting graphical installation...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1062, in ?
    iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 457, in makeDriveDeviceNodes
    isys.makeDevInode(drive, "/dev/%s" % (drive,))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 393, in makeDevInode
    _isys.mkdevinode(name, fn)
SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory')
install exited abnormally


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How reproducible:
Always

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Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-04 18:38:33 UTC 
Added a fix in CVS.
Comment 2 Jesse Barnes 2004-10-07 15:54:11 UTC 
Works now.
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