Bug 199568 - installation crashed while formatting swap space
Summary: installation crashed while formatting swap space
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 201773
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-07-20 13:44 UTC by Ingo Schaefer
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-09-17 05:54:03 UTC
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Description Ingo Schaefer 2006-07-20 13:44:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Installation broke during formatting of the swap space

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fc6 devel rescue cd dated 2006/07/17

How reproducible:
just tried one time, doing the same things with fc5 rescue worked

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start text mode installation
2. create swap partitions
3. choose packages
  
Actual results:
Message: "formatting swap was not successful, installation cancelled."

Expected results:
It should of course install correctly

Additional info:
Debug output from tty4: (all I could see on the screen)
<4> but task is already holding lock.
<4>   (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0464486>] do_open+0x6b/0x3b2
<4>
<4> other info that might us debug this:
<4> 1 lock held by anaconda/452
<4>   #0 (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0464486>] do_open+0x6b/0x3b2
<4> stack backtrace
<4> show_trace_log_lvl
<4> show_trace
<4> dump_stack
<4> __lock_acquire
<4> mutex_lock_nested
<4> __blkdev_put
<4> do_open
<4> blkdev_open
<4> __dentry_open
<4> nameidata_to_filp
<4> do_filp_open
<4> do_sys_open
<4> sys_open
<4> syscall_call

Comment 1 Ingo Schaefer 2006-07-20 20:13:38 UTC
I just want to clarify, that the system (=kernel) was responding all the time.
So "installation crashed" was maybe a bit mitleading. Installation could not be
finished after this bug would be a better description - sorry.

Jeremy, if you really think this is kernel, keep it assigned to kernel. I
thought, it was anaconda stuff, because anaconda held the lock.

Regards,
Ingo

PS: One idea: I forgot to add swap space and the installation program asked me
if I really want to proceed without swap. I said: "No" and corrected the
partitioning. Maybe this had an effekt?

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2006-09-17 05:54:03 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201773 ***


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