Bug 140294 - Installer fails on disks with out-of-disk-order partitions
Summary: Installer fails on disks with out-of-disk-order partitions
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 138419
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-22 04:07 UTC by Darryl Dixon
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:07:13 UTC
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Description Darryl Dixon 2004-11-22 04:07:03 UTC
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Description of problem:
A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to
bug-parted containing the version (1.6.15) and the following
message:Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
parted-1.6.15

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Partition disk so that partitions are numbered out-of-disk-order
2.Run installer to attempt to upgrade an old FC install
3.Installer fails when attempting to detect old installs to upgrade
    

Actual Results:  Installer fails with a popup window labelled 'BUG'
with the following contents:
Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

Expected Results:  Installer should detect previous FC install and
upgrade correctly.

Additional info:

This is a bug in version 1.6.15 of parted.  The full error output
(from external testing) is:

A bug has been detected in GNU parted.  Please email a bug report to
bug-parted containing the version (1.6.15) and the following
message:Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Error: Can't have the end before the start!

After discussions with the parted development team, they advised to
test version 1.6.18; I did so and this version does indeed function
correctly.

An example partiton layout that triggers this bug is:

Disk /dev/hda: 36.8 GB, 36848527872 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4759 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          16      120928+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2              17          51      264600   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3              52         745     5246640   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda4             746        4759    30345840    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1301        1335      264568+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            1336        2924    12012808+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda7            2925        4110     8966128+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda8            4111        4759     4906439+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda9             746        1300     4195768+  8e  Linux LVM

Note that hda9 is actually at the start of the extended partition,
even though it is labelled as the last.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-22 16:16:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:13 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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