From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061219 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.9 pango-text Description of problem: I'm trying to install RHEL5-Beta2 into a system that already has RHEL5 installed. I have free space in a volume group, so I want to create a new logical volume and install RHEL5 into that volume. I've done this before with RHEL3 and RHEL4 with no problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.1.2.16-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installer. 2. Select manual partitioning. 3. Create new logical volume "LVM_LogVol01" in "VolGrp00" and set as root mount point. Use existing /boot, and swap partitions. Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 2312, in setupDevice raise SystemError, "lvcreate failed for %s" %(self.name,) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 1613, in createLogicalVolumes entry.device.setupDevice(chroot, vgdevice = vg) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 141, in turnOnFilesystems anaconda.id.fsset.createLogicalVolumes(anaconda.rootPath) 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 978, 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 1005, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() SystemError: lvcreate failed for LVM_LogVol01 Expected Results: RHEL5 should have installed. Additional info: Will upload entire installation log shortly.
Created attachment 146382 [details] Installation log
Created attachment 146383 [details] Output of "vgdisplay -v" in RHEL4
In the timeless words of Emily Litella, "never mind." As it turns out, there wasn't enough space in the volume group to add a new logical volume. There was enough space in the physical volume, but through a slightly unusual series of events (which I won't go through here), the volume group was smaller than the physical volume. size of physical volume 24 GB size of volume group 12 GB - existing logical volume 8 GB ------------------------------ free space in group 4 GB I was trying to create a new 8 GB logical volume when there was only 4 GB of free space in the volume group. Once I increased the size of the volume group to the size of the underlying physical volume, RHEL5 installs fine. So I guess the real error was that anaconda didn't warn me that there wasn't enough free space in the volume group. (Emily Litella: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Litella)
*** Bug 431564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
FYI, I duped them because the tracebacks where equal