Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 35866
Installer crashing in mounting stage
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:39 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Installing into disk that already has some partitions. Choosing custom setup, existing partitions.Getting dump. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Custom setup 2.Choosing already defined partitions (as 83 - linux native), there are some more partitions (choosed not mount) - ntfs. 3.formating Actual Results: dump/reboot Expected Results: RedHat7 linux installed the same with RedHat6.2 Mandrake 7.2 installs fine. problem dont exist, when no more partitions defined as ntfs in Partitions table and doing standart (Workstation or Server) instalation. I can format new linux partitions from redhat6.2 (installed in another partition), o mandrake7.2, choosing not format partittion from installer - getting the same error THIS IS _NOT_ DUBLICATED FROM 18032 - tried updated anaconda with update-disk-20001009.img anaconda dump : 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 "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1491, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "/tmp/updates/fstab.py", line 722, in mountFilesystems isys.mount('/proc', instPath + '/proc', 'proc') File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 99, in mount rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly) SystemError: (20, 'Not a directory') Local variables in innermost frame: fstype: proc location: /mnt/sysimage/proc readOnly: 0 device: /proc ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
Are you sure that you selected the partitions you created to be formatted? We have seen this bug two other times (bug #18168 and bug #20838), but both times the users quit responding before we found out how to reproduce it. Any linux partitions that you are going to be writing data to *must* be formatted first, or else the installer will crash while trying to write data to an unformatted partition. As a side note, we released Red Hat Linux 7.1 today. I'm curious to know if 7.1 fixes your problem because we have done a good bit of work with the way the installer handles mounting, formatting, and partitioning. If you don't have the bandwidth to download it easily, that's ok.
Yes, I'm sure I selected to format. Maybe problem caused by existing ntfs partitions - disks - hda - 45G IBM DTLA hda1 - 4G - ntfs hda2 - 5G - ext2 - Mandrake 7.2 installed (after numerous of trying RedHat 6.2 - 7) hda3 - 5G - ext2 - where still trying to install RedHat7 hda4 - extended - 31G hda5 - 10G ntfs hda6 - 10G ntfs hda7 - 510M linux swap hda8 - 8G ntfs hdb - 6G Seagate hdb1 - 5,6 G ext2 - RedHat6.2 hdb2 - 400 M linux swap computer - MB MSI 6337 (i815e pro) 512M RAM, 866 PIII copermine, matrox g400 For the first time I could install rhat7. No reinstall was succesfull. Disk/controller is ok, cause I can format/mount hda2/3 from rhat6.2/Madrake7.2/WinNT
I'm not quite sure what the problem is here. Perhaps your cd is bad or something went wrong during the download. The installer is trying to mount the /proc directory on your root partition, and it is not able to do that for some reason. I'm almost certain that this issue has been fixed in 7.1 with the stricter partitioning rules.
I'm sure about cd/download - 1. tested on 3 CD got by 3 different ways 2. when trying on other systems, or in the same computer with another/blank disk - installation going fine. I'll try 7.1 when it will be available wider.
Putting in 'Needinfo' state until then.
7.1 do fine
Excellent. Thanks for working with us on this report.