Description of problem: Our kickstart tries to detect and mount partitions found by the kernel in the %pre section of the install, cause we want to backup some files before the disks get formated. It's based on /proc/partitions, try to find where is the fstab of the previous install and then mount all the old partitions in the good place (to have the same structure as before). Then the kickstart copies some files (mainly from /etc/sysconfig/). It was working like a charm witch FC5, but not anymore with FC6 First the kernel segfault while trying to mount /dev/sda (ok it's not so bad because /dev/sda is useless). But nodes for the partitions are missing... seems udev is missing too... can't get lvm to detect vg etc too. Even if we mknod some devs, we can't mount it (device or ressource is busy) So how can we mount some block device from this new anaconda (especialy in the pre-section)? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.1.1.3-1.i386.rpm anaconda-runtime-11.1.1.3-1.i386.rpm kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i586.rpm How reproducible: static Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from the FC6 dvd (or cd) 2. linux rescue 3. in the shell, mkdir /sda 4. mount /dev/sda /sda (twice) 5. seg fault or 4. ls /dev (no lvm mapper controll) 5. start_udev is missing 6. cat /proc/partitions (good, partitions are correctly detected) 7. mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1 8. mount /dev/sda1 /sda => device or ressource is busy Actual results: In most case, kernel Segfault In good days, can't mount any block devices (too busy) Expected results: On fc5, results with our kickstart are: - Lvm VG are detected (if presents) and mounted - All partitions found by the kernel are mounted too - No segfault Additional info: May be there is a new way to access device with the fc6 anaconda?
In fact udev and lvm are only missing in a newly buildinstalled anaconda, something change in buildinstall process on fc6? (but the segfault in trying to mount /dev/sda twice also appears in the original fc6 dvd)
ok it works now the problem is with mount, and its FS autoprobe function. If I use the -t option it works. It's a bit annoying because I can't guess the FS type of the partition... Do you want the kernel segfault trace log?
Device nodes should exist when %pre is run. Are you sure they don't?
I was building an FC5 anaconda on a FC6 maybe that was why i get this problem. Now building an FC6 anaconda on my FC6 seems ok, all dev nodes are presents, just the segfault with mount without -t is still there.
That's a bug in busybox (feel free to file it). FC5 anaconda breaking when built on FC6 doesn't really surprise me much :)
ok thanks :)