Bug 36673 - installer crashes when setting swap partition
Summary: installer crashes when setting swap partition
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 6.2
Hardware: sparc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-19 17:46 UTC by Brennan Thompson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-09-17 20:19:07 UTC
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Description Brennan Thompson 2001-04-19 17:46:02 UTC
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Installing 6.2 on sun sparcstation 2 (32MB RAM) over http connection 
through serial console (ttya).

After setting partitions using disk druid (or fdisk), i get the following 
message:

  As you don't have much memory in this machine,
  we need to turn on swap space immediately. To
  do this we'll have to write your new partition
  table to the disk immediately. Is that okay?

Selecting yes, i get the following error:

Red Hat Linux (C) 2000 Red Hat, 
Inc.                                        Swap
                  +----------+ Exception Occurred +----------+
                  |                                          |
                  | Traceback (innermost last):            # |
                  |   File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line  : |
                  | 342, in ?                              : |
                  |     intf.run(todo, test = test)        : |
                  |   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py",    : |
                  | line 1165, in run                      : |
                  |     rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])    : |
                  |   File                                 : |
                  | "/mnt/redhat/comps/install/6.2/sparc/  : |
                  | misc/src/trees/hdimage//usr/lib/anaco  : |
                  | nda/textw/partitioning.py", line 200,  : |
                  | in __call__                            : |
                  |                                          |
                  |       +----+            +-------+        |
                  |       | OK |            | Debug |        |
                  |       +----+            +-------+        |
                  |                                          |

Please help!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run setup
2. Create partitions

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-04-23 20:13:11 UTC
Deferring this bug.  I will reopen if plans for a future Sparc release arise.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2001-09-17 20:19:03 UTC
SPARC is not a supported platform.


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