Bug 203095 - Partition sanity check failure in kickstart with LVM
Summary: Partition sanity check failure in kickstart with LVM
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-18 14:06 UTC by Andrew Kroeger
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-08-18 14:18:51 UTC
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Description Andrew Kroeger 2006-08-18 14:06:35 UTC
Description of problem:
After modifying a kickstart file to create LVM PV's, VG's, and LV's, I received
an error in anaconda ("Logical volume size must be larger than the volume
group's physical extent size.").  I used a partition setup that works
successfully on FC5:

part /boot --asprimary --fstype=ext3 --size=96 --ondisk=sda
part pv.01 --asprimary --size=512 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup vg.01 pv.01
logvol swap --fstype=swap --size=512 --vgname=vg.01 --name=swap
logvol / --fstype=ext3 --grow --size=1 --vgname=vg.01 --name=root

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-11.1.0.83-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate a kickstart file (used system-config-kickstart-2.6.13-1)
2. Manually change partitioning using a setup that worked in FC5
3. Start a kickstart install

Actual results:
Receive the "Logical volume size must be larger than the volume group's physical
extent size." error.

Expected results:
Successful partitioning and kickstart installation continues.

Additional info:
The problem appears to be that the "--grow" option is not considered when the
sanity checks are performed.  After checking the anaconda source, I found the
error message on line 924 of partRequests.py.  The logic in that particular test
checks that the supplied size (*1024) is not less than the default LVM PE size
(32768).  I had followed the basic output of system-config-kickstart, which sets
"--size=1" when the "--grow" option is used.  Once I saw the logic in the test
that was failing, I changed to "--size=512" (along with the "--grow" option) in
the kickstart file, and the installation proceeded as expected.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2006-08-18 14:18:51 UTC
Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next build of anaconda.


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