Bug 184294 - unexpected exception due to failed vgremove
Summary: unexpected exception due to failed vgremove
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-07 21:05 UTC by Doug Chapman
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-19 18:46:48 UTC
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Description Doug Chapman 2006-03-07 21:05:32 UTC
Description of problem:

I did a RHEL3U7 install using LVM.  One disk was used for LVM, all other
partitions were removed using disk druid.  All went well.

I then did another install using software RAID5.  I deleted all partitions,
including the LVM logical and physical volumes in disk druid.  Anaconda later
died with the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 943, in handleRenderCallback
    self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 156, in renderCallback
    self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 768, in nextClicked
    self.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 157, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 225, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 483, in turnOnFilesystems
    partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 1245, in doMetaDeletes
    lvm.vgremove(delete.name)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 152, in vgremove
    raise SystemError, "vgremove failed"
SystemError: vgremove failed

> /usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py(152)vgremove()
-> raise SystemError, "vgremove failed"



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL3-U7-re0306.0/ia64

How reproducible:
need to try to reproduce but should be easy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL3 U7 using LVM
2. do another install, use disk druid to delete old LVM and create RAID on all disks
3.
  
Actual results:
anaconda dies with exception as described above

Expected results:
it should work!

Additional info:

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 18:46:48 UTC
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
 
If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your
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information on how this bug is affecting you.


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