From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) He installs great unti the program reaches the point after he formatted my partitions; then I get this message "error mounting hdb1: invalid argument" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. I partition my hdb drive as follows: * / * swap * /BOOT Actual Results: He crashed, and I had to restart my system. Expected Results: That he installed properly ! The error message Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in doInstall File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 713, in mountFilesystems SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 1024096 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 833fcd8> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 1 errno: 22 device: hdb1 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iharddrive HardDriveInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'fstype' p6 S'vfat' p7 sS'isMounted' p8 I0 sS'fnames' p9 (dp10 <failed>
Did you got back/forwards during the install?
No, I didn't get any back or forwards.... I also applied the Update Disk that you can find by Updates/Images on the FTP site, but that didn't help either....
Did you autopartition, use Disk Druid, or fdisk (from the installer menu)?
I used Disk Druid
If you reboot and use the partitions you created in the previous attempt, without destroying and recreating them, does it work?
No, that doesn't work either.... Would it help if I would partition it with another program, like Part Magic 6.0, or fdisk ? thanx
You could try repartitioning with fdisk.
I am having the same prob. I have ran fdisk several times (swap, /boot, /, each of these as different partition numbers), and I see the same result. I a have an Adaptec AIC-7XXX SCSI Controller. Here is the crash: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 8570677 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8448910> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 0 errno: 22 device: sda2 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> If you would like me to start a new bug/ticket, let me know. Thanks a lot, - Josh
I am having the same problem too... all the way down to the Adeptec AIC 7XXX SCSI Controller. The crash is the IDENTICAL except for the drive, mine errors on sdc1. The partitions are: / on sda1 = 4 gig, swap on sdb5 = 300mb, /var on sdb6 = 2 gig, /cache on sdb1 = 1.7 gig, and /home on sdc1 = 4 gig Let me know if you need more info. --Ron
SOLUTION!!! Problem solved!! Download the existing anaconda update. I did check disks for bad sectors... it had completed format twice before... I hope this helps you all!! --Ron
sumary: i got an error message similar to the adaptec report. a few lines different. i have a 13 g western digital hard drive. this is my first experience with linux so i dont know much else other than my system wont install. history: i installed linux red hat 7 two days ago. it deleted my windows partition and all my data but it left me with linux running fine so i didnt really care too much about losin winblows. then i shut down to go away and came back this evening and booted up and recieved nothing but an L on a black screen. i formatted the partition with fdisk and it was still booting to the L screen. so i deleted the partition and created a new one. removing the dos disk i was expecting it to return an 'operating system not found' message but instead still got the L. so i assumed L meant Lilo so i booted using the linux boot disk. it did its Lilo thing and then i booted with the cdrom. its now a good five hours later and i have reformated and reinstalled several times and each time i recieve this error message. so now i have come here seeking the smart ones. thanks... error message: 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/gui.py", line 336, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 678, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 428, in nextClicked self.setScreen (self.currentScreen, self.nextClicked) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 466, in setScreen new_screen = screen.getScreen () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/rootpartition_gui.py", line 133, in getScreen avail = apply(isys.spaceAvailable, self.todo.fstab.getRootDevice()) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 10, in spaceAvailable mount(device, "/mnt/space", fstype = fsystem) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 99, in mount rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: fstype: vfat location: /mnt/space devName: /tmp/hda1 readOnly: 0 device: /tmp/hda1 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
These bugs are duplicates of #16686...a bug with a long history. It's long since been fixed in our internal testing builds. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16686 ***