Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 244599
Anaconda generates exception after disk format
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:07 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Description of problem: During the install of Fedora 7 I receive and exception error and the install aborts just after formatting the single hard drive in my system. I downloaded the DVD ISO from one of the Fedora listed sites and burned it to a DVD. I Inserted the DVD into a system that was currently running a Fedora 6. The install was started using the GUI interface and all defaults were selected. I selected to overwrite the current file system and selected the default productivity package. Anaconda then started and showed the Format / File system progress bar. This is a 250 Gig drive so it took about 15 minutes to complete. After the progress bar was finished I received a dialog box that stated an exception had occurred and was given the option to save to a floppy, debug, OK. Selecting OK caused to installation to abort, and a line of text indicating that it was ok to restart the system. When I rebooted I noticed that the old version of GRUB was still on the hard drive. I preformed a wipe disk, but this gave the same results when I attempted to restart the install. Likewise, running the install in the text mode gave the same results. Attached is the text dump of the exception. I will attempt to perform an install from the rescue disk, using a USB drive with the ISO. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert DVD 2. Start install 3. Select overwrite current File System 4. Wait for format to compleat 5. Note the error 6. select OK 7. Install Aborts Actual Results: Fedora 7 did not Install Expected Results: The Fedora 7 package should install Additional info:
Created attachment 157240 [details] Error Text Dump
Did you use media check to check your DVD? You have lots of errors like the following in your exception dump. <6>sr 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 <6>sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error <6> Additional sense: Unrecovered read error <4>end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 5518968 <3>Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1379742
Yes, I did the media check and it passed. I was able to download the Fedora 7 Live (Gnome) CD, run it and selected save to hard disk. The install then formatted the hard drive, and installed fedora 7 without any errors. So this seems to be a problem with the copy of the DVD install I got. I downloaded a new copy of the DVD from a completely different site, and burned it with a different DVD drive, on a different brand of DVD blank. And I still got the same error when I used this new DVD
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242844 ***