Description of problem: I'm pretty sure I've seen this before, but can't find the bug report if I made one. I'm installing FC6T2 on a ppc mac mini that had FC5 (I think) on it already. Selected wipe linux partitions during install. It's now hung on "pvremove -ff /dev/hda8".
Created attachment 134168 [details] anaconda log
Created attachment 134169 [details] Syslog from install
pvremove should not hang.
Please add -vvvv to the lvm command that is apparently hanging and send me the output. Or run it under strace. Or 'dd' the first 200k of *all* your partitions at this point so we can attempt to reproduce it elsewhere. As I've said before, it would be useful if there was an anaconda debug mode that would capture the -vvvv debug logs from lvm commands.
Created attachment 134341 [details] mbr and first 200k of each partition Okay, I'm not sure this is (entirely) a lvm problem, though it may have messed things up earlier (altough think this was a working FC5 system previously). Looking in the anaconda log: 20:31:00 INFO : pv is /dev/hda7 in vg rootvg, size is 25439 20:31:00 INFO : pv is /dev/hda8 in vg rootvg, size is 77 20:31:00 INFO : vg rootvg, size is 71456, pesize is 32768 20:31:00 INFO : vg rootvg, size is 25408, pesize is 32768 20:31:00 ERROR : Volume group rootvg using non-existent partition /dev/hda8 and indeed, while the kernel syslog seems to indicate 8 partitions: <6> hda: [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 parted shows only 7: Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: mac Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 0.51kB 32.8kB 32.3kB primary 2 32.8kB 1081kB 1049kB hfs primary boot 6 1081kB 53.5MB 52.4MB ext3 primary 3 134MB 26.7GB 26.5GB hfs+ primary 4 26.7GB 26.7GB 8913kB hfs+ primary 5 26.7GB 53.4GB 26.7GB primary 7 53.4GB 80.0GB 26.7GB primary lvm So: - something is incorrectly reporting 8 partitions and saying that rootvg is using hda8 - or parted is incorrectly reporting only 7 partitions? I was able to read from /dev/hda8 with dd. - In any case, pmvremove -ff /dev/hda8 shouldn't hang. Don't know how to run under strace or -vvvv during install. Killed the hung pvremove with kill -9 and it can run okay now. I've attached the mbr and first 200k of each partition
I can't reproduce this with a FC6T2 install on top of an existing FC6T2 install. I may try again with FC5...
One thing I noticed while investigating another bug was that pvremove isn't run with the '-y' argument as it should be. (Still shouldn't hang of course.)
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