Description of problem: After going through the RPM section of the installation, anaconda dies when it tries to setup grub on a read-only volume. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-virtinst.noarch 0.103.0-3.fc7 installed all packages are up-to-date. How reproducible: always doesn't work for me Steps to Reproduce: 1. virt-install -n ciw -r 256 -f /dev/vg0/ciw --vnc -l http://66.92.147.29/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/ i386/os/ 2. connect via vnc 3. select default partitioning 4. configure how you like it 5. start the install 6. ??? Actual results: 7. major losses Expected results: 7. profit Additional info:
Created attachment 157846 [details] the error desc. file anaconda offered to send to a remote server on failure
The guest kernel throwing I/O errors wrt to the virtual disk. <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 5124735 I/O errors in the virtual disk are generally propagated through from the host, so I'm thinking something is wrong on your host storage. Can you provide the /var/log/messages & /var/log/xen/xend.log from the host, immediately after the failure. Also, can you re-run virt-install, adding the --debug command line argument & attach the output it generates.
Here are some of the dom0 errors that go with those (these are just the ones from the last window of dmesg): raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83907455 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83904633 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83904765 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83904891 3 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905023 3 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905147 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905279 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905405 3 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905529 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905661 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905785 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83905919 3 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83887613 4 raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k 83895807 2
Created attachment 157848 [details] output from virt-install + --debug
Created attachment 157849 [details] anaconda dump
The exported logical volume is in a volume group that resides on a single raid0 array. Nothing on the other logical volumes causes any error.
The combination of Xen blkback + LVM + raid seems to be causing I/O errors in your dom0. These get propagated up into the guest & thus anaconda crashes & burns. So re-assigning as this is a kernel bug really...
This seems to be the same problem reported on bug #223947. Reassigning bug to me.
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