Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 221074
Anaconda Exception installing FC6 on pre-existing LVM partition with non-default name
Last modified: 2008-05-06 13:16:36 EDT
Description of problem: Upgrading FC4 server to FC6. FC4 boots from IDE drive. Trying to install FC6 on an LVM partition on a pair of SATA drives. When anaconda tries to mount the filesystems to do the install it gets an exception. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Select custom disk layout, specify /boot on sda1, / on existing vgraid2-root2-1. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot FC6 DVD 2. Specify load Static IP/iSCSI update from local web server 3. Specify custom disk layout 4. Specify Office, Web Server, SW development package groups 5. Default other values Actual results: Anaconda exception Expected results: Successful install Additional info: Begining of Traceback, full traceback attached: Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 170, in copyDeviceNode filestat = os.lstat(src) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1797, in makeLVMNodes iutil.copyDeviceNode(dmdev, instPath + dmdev) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1756, in mountFilesystems self.makeLVMNodes(anaconda.rootPath) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 145, in turnOnFilesystems anaconda.id.fsset.mountFilesystems (anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 199, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 122, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 923, in nextClicked self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 243, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 950, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/mapper/vgraid2-root2-1' Local variables in innermost frame: dest: /mnt/sysimage/dev/mapper/vgraid2-root2-1 src: /dev/mapper/vgraid2-root2-1
Created attachment 144602 [details] Traceback from Anaconda exception
Anaconda in FC8 has the same problem. In my system, there's a software RAID1 and LVM. Going into tty2, I had try to execute "vgchange -a y" activating the vg, before the last steps of installation (and I verified, mouting the lv int other directiry). But anaconda appears to deactivate the VG, before ir try to mount the /: " ... trying to mount /dev/lvm-raid/lvm00 on / "
I had the same problem when installing Fedora 8 on 256 MB box with one IDE disk (no RAID) and preexisting lvm2 setup which non-default names (GUI install with custom disk layout option selected) I had to run loop while :; do usleep 99000; lvm vgchange -a y; done on TTY2 before clicking final "Start Installing" (or similarly named) button to allow the install to success. The utterly irritating feature of anaconda is that when formatting fails (in this case bacuse of anaconda bug) there is no "Back" option, only "Reboot", so all selections are lost. [ Would suggest changing fedora version to 8 ]
Forgot to mention this was new install of Fedora8 rather than upgrade. It seems anaconda does not tolerate preexising lvm setup; it runs fine if all used lvm logical volumes are created during **this** anaconda run.
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