From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Whether manually or automatic partition setting soon after install of OS begins error message appears and installation halts. When I changed the ext3 to ext2 in the partition editior the installation went through without error messages or halting. Error message receive:error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hdb2 - Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hdb2 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Load Disc 1 fc4 iso. 2.modify partition using ext3. 3.Within initial install error message appears and halt. Actual Results: Only option was to reboot and start OS installation again. Expected Results: Successful loading of OS using ext3 format in partitions. Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1137, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 244, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 873, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 174, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 242, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 579, in turnOnFilesystems diskset.savePartitions () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 726, in savePartitions disk.commit() error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hdb2 - Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hdb2 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Local variables in innermost frame: self: <partedUtils.DiskSet instance at 0xb7d0ca2c> disk: <PedDisk object at 0xb7f38308> Package Group selection status: ISO8859-9 Support: 0 Office/Productivity: 1 Compatibility Arch Development Support: 0 Engineering and Scientific: 0 MySQL Database: 0 Development Libraries: 0 Malay Support: 0 Portuguese Support: 0 Editors: 1 System Tools: 0 Japanese Support: 0 Hungarian Support: 0 Punjabi Support: 0 British Support: 0 Korean Support: 0 GNOME Software Development: 0 German Support: 0 Gaelic Support: 0 Faeroese Support: 0 Swedish Support: 0 Server: 0 Russian Support: 0 Text-based Internet: 1 Serbian Support: 0 KDE: 0 Gujarati Support: 0 Catalan Support: 0 Lithuanian Support: 0 X Software Development: 0 Workstation Common: 0 Legacy Network Server: 0 x86 Compatibility Arch Support: 0 GNOME Desktop Environment: 1 Dialup Networking Support: 1 Turkish Support: 0 Arabic Support: 0 Basque Support: 0 Everything: 0 Core: 0 Authoring and Publishing: 0 Irish Support: 0 Italian Support: 0 Slovak Support: 0 Base: 1 Slovenian Support: 0 FTP Server: 0 Java: 0 Network Servers: 0 Kannada Support: 0 GNOME: 0 Breton Support: 0 Romanian Support: 0 Games and Entertainment: 1 Greek Support: 0 Compatibility Arch Support: 0 Zulu Support: 0 Miscellaneous Included Packages: 0 Danish Support: 0 Afrikaans Support: 0 Legacy Software Development: 0 Brazilian Portuguese Support: 0 Cyrillic Support: 0 Welsh Support: 0 Thai Support: 0 Java Development: 0 Emacs: 0 Tamil Support: 0 Legacy Software Support: 0 Windows File Server: 0 X Window System: 1 Chinese Support: 0 Graphics: 1 Web Server: 0 Ruby: 0 Czech Support: 0 Bulgarian Support: 0 Indonesian Support: 0 Eclipse: 0 Galician Support: 0 Dutch Support: 0 Printing Support: 1 KDE Software Development: 0 Icelandic Support: 0 Ukrainian Support: 0 Assamese Support: 0 KDE (K Desktop Environment): 0 Bengali Support: 0 Mail Server: 0 Spanish Support: 0 Hebrew Support: 0 Estonian Support: 0 French Support: 0 Server Configuration Tools: 0 Croatian Support: 0 Language Support: 0 PostgreSQL Database: 0 Finnish Support: 0 Norwegian Support: 0 Administration Tools: 1 Polish Support: 0 News Server: 0 Hindi Support: 0 DNS Name Server: 0 Development Tools: 0 Sound and Video: 1 Graphical Internet: 1 ISO8859-2 Support: 0 PC Dell i386 2 IDE hard drives hda-Maxtor - 16G, hdb-Western Bell- 20G primary, slave respective Windows 2000 on primary, slave formatted in ntfs, initially Memory 384MB Processor PentiumIV 485Mhz 1 dvd-rom drive, 1 cd burner, 1 iomega disk drive, 1 floppy drive 1 ethernet card, 1 modem N-vidia graphics card Turtle Beach sound card
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