Bug 187975
| Summary: | pvcreate failed during rhes v4 installation | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jeff Torma <jeffreytorma> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | atodorov, jlaska, ken, nhruby |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 10.1.1.89-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-06-10 19:33:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Jeff Torma
2006-04-05 01:43:52 UTC
Can you provide the complete traceback you received? Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/build/500926-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1074,
in handleRenderCallback print "Unable to read %s help text" % (file,)
File "/usr/src/build/500926-
i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in
RenderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/src/build/500926-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 789,
in NextClicked title=_("%s Installer on %s) % (productName, string.strip(netinf
[1]))
File "/usr/src/build/500926-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line
171, in gotoNext self.moveStep()
File "/usr/src/build/500926-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line
239, in moveStep rc=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args))
File "/usr/src/build/500926-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line
558 in turnOnFilesystems thefsset.createLogicalVolumes(instPath)
File "/usr/src/build/500926-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line
1428, in createLogicalVolumes entry.device.setupDevice(chroot)
File "/usr/src/build/500926-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line
1987, in setupDevice raise SystemError, "pvcreate failed for %s" % (volume,)
SystemError: pvcreate failed for <fsset.PartitionDevice instance at 0xb7cab6ac>
i've seen the same thing, I had to zero out the lvm signature to install. I was trying to create a vg with the same name as what exists. If I cannot reproduce, then I'll assume there was some vg was in a bad state that causes pvcreate to fail. I can reproduce it, lets say that you have sda and sdb. You are installing on sdb2 and sda2/sdb2 are pv's from prior installs. sda2 causes sdb2 to get vgscan'd (or vice-versa). at least when the target partition is the only lvm uuid then this doesn't happen. my workaround is to "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/path/to/pv bs=2k count=1" in %pre This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. This request was previously evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, but Red Hat was unable to resolve it in time. This request will be reviewed for a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. Jeff, we were not able to reproduce this issue. Can you please try and reproduce with RHEL4-U6. If still there please attach your exact steps to reproduce (ks.cfg files, disk layout prior and post installation). If we don't hear anything from you in a reasonable amount of time (e.g. 1 month) I'll have to close this with resolution of INSUFFICIENT_DATA Thanks. If we can't reproduce this at this point, it's not going to get fixed. |