If there are any bind mounts listed in /etc/fstab, anaconda gives the following error message: "Error mounting device /mnt/storage/nicholas/media as /home/nicholas/media: No such file or directory. This most likely means this partition has not been formatted. Press OK to reboot your system." The fstab line which caused this error was: /mnt/storage/nicholas/media /home/nicholas/media auto bind 0 0
What is the actual type of the filesystem you're trying to bind mount?
ext3. That shouldn't matter, though, for a bind mount. Perhaps anaconda isn't mounting filesystems listed in /etc/fstab in order? Or maybe it's treating the bind keyword as an option to be passed to the filesystem instead of an indication to set the MS_BIND flag? The full /etc/fstab is: /dev/System/Root / ext3 user_xattr,acl,defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/Storage/Media /mnt/storage ext3 user_xattr,acl,defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/System/Swap swap swap defaults 0 0 /mnt/storage/nicholas/media /home/nicholas/media auto bind 0 0 /mnt/storage/nicholas/stuff /home/nicholas/stuff auto bind 0 0
When it hits the error message, can you switch over to tty2 and copy /tmp/anaconda.log somewhere useful so you can attach it to this bug report? That should have something helpful in it. My initial attempt to reproduce this didn't show the bug, so I'll need to dig a little deeper. If you comment out the first bind mount, does the second one work?
Created attachment 127025 [details] Anaconda log It looks like Anaconda never mounted /mnt/storage (and the output of the mount command confirms this), which means that /mnt/storage/nicholas/{media,stuff} don't exist and can't be bind mounted to /home/nicholas/{media,stuff}.
Hmm. Apparently attaching things to bugs doesn't kick it from NEEDINFO_REPORTER to UNCONFIRMED. So here's a comment to do that.
Is anaconda clever enough to remap /mnt/storage/nicholas/media to /mnt/sysimage/mnt/storage/nicholas/media for bind mounts?
(In reply to comment #5) > Hmm. Apparently attaching things to bugs doesn't kick it from NEEDINFO_REPORTER > to UNCONFIRMED. So here's a comment to do that. Checking the "I am providing the requested information for this bug" box may be what's needed, so I'll try that for you.
Whoops, never saw that checkbox. I'll try it too, the more the merrier.
Trying again...
Closing due to lack of updates. Please try again with FC6 and reopen this bug if you are still seeing problems.
(In reply to comment #10) > Closing due to lack of updates. Please try again with FC6 and reopen this bug > if you are still seeing problems. Lack of updates? Is the attachment in Comment #4 not what you asked for?
I was closing due to the amount of time that has passed since comment #9, which I took to mean that Nicholas was trying to reproduce it again. If this is still happening, feel free to reopen the bug. Testing with FC6 would be especially appreciated.
OK; I have some bind-mounted ISO images on one of my machines. For FC5 I commented them out of fstab prior to doing the upgrade. I'll give the FC6 upgrade a go without doing this to see what happens.
Comment #9 was in reference to this bug not transitioning out of NEEDINFO state despite my reply and the checking of the "This responses contains the requested information" checkbox. i.e. I was talking trying to get bugzilla to work, not Anaconda (which was definitely still broken).