Bug 26557 - Installer crashes during fresh text mode install of RH 7.0
Summary: Installer crashes during fresh text mode install of RH 7.0
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 18032
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-07 22:36 UTC by James Evans
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-08 17:38:45 UTC
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Description James Evans 2001-02-07 22:36:34 UTC
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I was attempting to install RH 7.0 from bootable CD via text mode.  There's
a small ext2 Linux partition (54M) that I am using for /boot, a big, FAT32
partition for Win2000, a 720MB FAT32 partition, a big ext2 partition for
Linux and a 125MB Linux swap partition.  The are in that order from left to
right, with only the 54MB /boot partition and the big FAT32 partition being
primary, and the others being logical.

I labeled the 54MB partition /boot and made the main ext2 partition just
/.  I chose to install LILO on the boot sector of hda3 and added a
selection for Win2000 and Linux.  When it came time to choose the packages,
I selected each package manually and also selected to install everything
and select individual packages.  Inside of that, I left all selected
packages and added to the X-Server section the Rage 64 server and the SVGA
server.  Chose not to configure X at the time.  I started the install and
after it formatted the drives, anaconda crashed so I wrote the log to a
floppy.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I had the crash happen two more times when attempting to install as above. 
My co-worker tried the install for me, but didn't add Win2000 to LILO and
didn't add the other X-Servers (SVGA and Rage 64).  This time, the install
worked.

Actual Results:  When I tried to repeat the install as I originally did, it
crashed each additional time.

Expected Results:  It should have installed Linux.

I created the drive partitions using Partition Magic 6.0 under Win 2000. 
Only the 54M /boot partition and the Big FAT32 partition were primary
partitions.  (the others were logical partitions)

Here is the error log from the floppy:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in
run
    rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in
__call__
    if todo.doInstall ():
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1480, in
doInstall
    if self.method.systemMounted (self.fstab, self.instPath,
self.hdList.selected()):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 46, in
systemMounted
    self.loopbackFile = mntPoint + fstab.filesystemSpace(mntPoint)[0][0] +
\
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 258, in
filesystemSpace
    space.append((mntpoint, isys.fsSpaceAvailable(topMount + '/' +
mntpoint)))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 16, in fsSpaceAvailable
    return _isys.devSpaceFree(fsystem)
SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory')

Local variables in innermost frame:
fsystem: /mnt/sysimage//temp_cd

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-08 17:38:41 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18032 ***


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