From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: Using the following system: SuperMicro X6DH8-XG2 or X6DHE-XG2 motherboard (Intel E7520 Lindenhurst chipset) Two Intel Nocona processors Two 200GB Serial ATA disks (detected as hda and hdc) I tried to install Fedora Core 2 on hdc. This failed during postinstall. Anaconda reported the following error: File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1131, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 475, 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 1125, in doPostInstall devnull = os.open("/dev/null", os.O_RDWR) OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/dev/null' Going into the shell by Alt-F2, doing an "ls -l /dev/null" gives an "Input/output error". Doing "ls -l /dev" shows a corrupt /dev directory (with no device file named null). The same failure occurs when trying to install onto hda or without restricting what disk to use. The failure does not occur when kickstart installing on other hardware (both i386 and x86_64 with AMD processors). The kickstart config file is (note that a similar file was used successfully to install the i386 version on hda and unsuccessfully install the x86_64 version on hda and without disk restriction): #System language lang en_US #Language modules to install langsupport en_US #System keyboard keyboard us #System mouse mouse generic3ps/2 #System timezone timezone --utc America/Los_Angeles #Root password rootpw --iscrypted $1$censored #Reboot after installation reboot #Use text mode install text #Install Red Hat Linux instead of upgrade install #Use NFS installation Media nfs --server=10.0.0.3 --dir=/path/to/fedora-2/x86_64 #System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr #Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr yes #Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel #Disk partitioning information part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 256 --asprimary part swap --recommended part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow part /a --fstype ext3 --size 20000 part /b --fstype ext3 --size 20000 #System authorization infomation auth --useshadow --enablemd5 #Firewall configuration firewall --disabled #Network information --netmask=255.255.0.0 --gateway=10.0.0.1 --nameserver=10.0.0.2 --hostname=CHANGEME #Do not configure XWindows skipx #Package install information %packages --resolvedeps @ Administration Tools @ Base @ Core @ Development Tools @ Editors @ Emacs @ FTP Server @ Kernel Development @ Network Servers @ Printing Support @ Server Configuration Tools @ System Tools @ Text-based Internet @ Web Server @ Windows File Server @ X Window System sendmail sendmail-cf ppp minicom perl-Time-HiRes #pine mutt lynx ncftp openssl096b dhcp glibc-profile tcl perl-DBI mysql perl-DBD-MySQL vnc vnc-server @ Authoring and Publishing @ GNOME Desktop @ Graphical Internet @ KDE (K Desktop Environment) @ Office/Productivity @ Sound and Video %post /bin/cat << EOF > /etc/rc.d/init.d/postinstall #!/bin/sh # chkconfig 345 99 99 # [etc. not shown here for brevity] EOF /bin/chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/postinstall cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d ln -s ../init.d/postinstall S99postinstall cd /etc/rc.d/rc4.d ln -s ../init.d/postinstall S99postinstall cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d ln -s ../init.d/postinstall S99postinstall Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Attempt to kickstart install Fedora Core 2 using the above configuration file (adjusted for IP addresses and root password) on the named hardware. Actual Results: Postinstall fails with the given Anaconda error. Expected Results: The expected result is a successful postinstall. Additional info:
This was a kernel bug fixed in FC3