Bug 433658 - Installer / rescue from 2008-02-19 not handling bad partitions usefully
Summary: Installer / rescue from 2008-02-19 not handling bad partitions usefully
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 435210 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: F9Beta
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-20 18:16 UTC by Bruno Wolff III
Modified: 2008-03-10 17:23 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-11.4.0.48
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-03-10 17:23:47 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Traceback from install attempt (534.58 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-02-20 18:16 UTC, Bruno Wolff III
no flags Details
Anaconda traceback dump (529.48 KB, text/plain)
2008-02-27 21:03 UTC, Bruno Wolff III
no flags Details

Description Bruno Wolff III 2008-02-20 18:16:18 UTC
Description of problem:
I have been trying to install rawhide with encryption on top of raid and have
been having some problems.
I was trying out the boot.iso from 2008-02-19 and it crashed after confirming
that I really wanted to install rawhide. I think this was because it couldn't
figure out what to do with partitions that were incompletely set up when I tried
using the alpha iso to do the install.
Then I tried booting in rescue mode so that I could use badblocks to overwrite
the partition table (I had to do this when using the alpha iso) and got prompted
for a password to the partitions (which shouldn't have been encrypted) and the
raid arrays. The pasword didn't seem to work. After skipping ahead (since I
didn't need to mount the filesystems) anaconda crashed without the option to
save state.
The error messgae was:
rootparts = ananconda.id.diskset.findExistingRootPartitions(upgradeany =
upgradeany)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 775, in findExisting
RootPartitions
except SystemError, (errno, msg):
ValueError: need more than 1
value to unpack
install exited abnormally [1/1]

I am attaching the saved traceback from the install attempt (not the rescue
attempt).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I am not sure of the version built into the boot.iso.

How reproducible:
100% with the current hard drive contents, reproducing that might prove tricky.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use alpha.iso to try to install with encryption on top of raid.
2. Use boot.iso do to an install after the above step has failed.
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bruno Wolff III 2008-02-20 18:16:18 UTC
Created attachment 295436 [details]
Traceback from install attempt

Comment 2 Bruno Wolff III 2008-02-27 21:03:28 UTC
Created attachment 296121 [details]
Anaconda traceback dump

Today's images have the same problem. After partially installing with
encryption over raid, further installs were blocked until the partition
table was wiped.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2008-03-02 17:32:19 UTC
*** Bug 435210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2008-03-02 21:17:56 UTC
The traceback won't happen as of tomorrow's rawhide, but there might still be
problems lingering.  So I'll leave this open to be tested then.

Comment 5 petrosyan 2008-03-10 17:23:47 UTC
This bug has been fixed in current anaconda-11.4.0.48


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