Description of problem: After formatting partitions and configuring language, network, timezone and root pasword, so "copying image on the hard disk" there is a message about exception in "isys.py" (details in attachment "Anaconda.log"). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Installation from live-cd on 80GB HDD containing 15 partitions (including 3GB / ext3, 8GB /usr ext3, 8 GB /home ext3, and so on (all formatted). Language: Polish or US-English, timezone: Warsaw. Solving like: http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=895963&postcount=25 didn't help. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Booting live-cd with options: acpi=off pmc=off nofb ide=nodma (like on page above) 2. Hard- disk installation. 3. Choosing options like above. Actual results: Showing exception like in the attachment's beginning lines, breaking of the the installation after clicking OK. Expected results: Continuing of installation, ability to boot from HD. Additional info: Image seems to be fully copied to /mnt/sysimage.
Created attachment 257261 [details] Anaconda's log with python traceback.
Precisely saying mentioned installation is from kde-livecd-i386.iso
OK- now it works..:) I don't know, why... I have done nothing special. Just during preparing partitions in Disk Druid I haven't bring any mountpoints for most of the partitions (only for /dev/sda7- / and /dev/sda1- /boot). It resulted in completing "Copying image on hd", "Post-install procedures" and whole installation ("completed successfully" - Yeahhh!!!:)). Booting from HD appeared softly, next stages blew perfectly and finally I found myself in GUI environment. Here only 1 case is suspicious, and 2 are uncomfortable, so : 1. There is no install.log file in /root directory. 2. The whole fedora is standing on / and /boot partitions (what was rather expected as a consequence of not bringing mount points in Disk Druid). 3. GParted is starting very slowly (what I've been already experiencing in earlier distros). I'm suspecting, that 2'nd case lays on proper configuration of /etc/fstab (probably), so you won't be interested in its further lifetime, but resting two points could be bugs (esp. 1 could be anaconda's bug), so I'll leave them for your nice consideration. Regards.
According to previous comment (point 1) I've discovered meanwhile proper warning about /root/install.log in my /var/log/anaconda.log file. There are also similar warnings according to /root/install.log.syslog, /etc/modprobe.conf , /etc/rpm/macros and a few others.
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It's ok- I suppose, that this bug was caused by more like a corruption of physical disk's structure than the Anaconda program. Anyway: "error handling", dear maintainers, "error handling" ;)
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