From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: trying to upgrade fc6 to fc7 using rescue cd (and ntfs). anaconda fails at update_boot_loader (python script error, Text) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Anaconda How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use fc7 rescue cd, install 2. askmethod text 3. Actual Results: fails at update_boot_loader Expected Results: no failure Additional info: can't upgrade system, no workaround.
[root@skipper ~]# lcpci -v -bash: lcpci: command not found [root@skipper ~]# lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub (rev 04) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ffa00000-ffafffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d3f00000-d3ffffff Capabilities: [88] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at ff480000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at ff440000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ff600000-ff6fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d3b00000-00000000d3b00000 Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ff700000-ff7fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d3c00000-00000000d3c00000 Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ff800000-ff8fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d3d00000-00000000d3d00000 Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ff900000-ff9fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d3e00000-00000000d3e00000 Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20 I/O ports at c800 [size=32] 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at cc00 [size=32] 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at d000 [size=32] 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 I/O ports at d400 [size=32] 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20 Memory at ff43fc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Debug port 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff Memory behind bridge: ff500000-ff5fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d4000000-00000000d7f00000 Capabilities: [50] #0d [0000] 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8] I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1] I/O ports at 0170 [size=8] I/O ports at 0374 [size=1] I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at e800 [size=8] I/O ports at e400 [size=4] I/O ports at e000 [size=8] I/O ports at dc00 [size=4] I/O ports at d800 [size=16] Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4556 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19 I/O ports at c400 [size=32] 06:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3061 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21 Memory at ff500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at bc00 [size=64] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
boot device is sata [root@skipper ~]# modinfo ata_piix filename: /lib/modules/2.6.22.14-72.fc6/kernel/drivers/ata/ata_piix.ko version: 2.11 license: GPL description: SCSI low-level driver for Intel PIIX/ICH ATA controllers author: Andre Hedrick, Alan Cox, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz, Jeff Garzik srcversion: 385EF63E22C20071348F8B1 alias: pci:v00008086d0000292Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000292Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002928sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002926sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002921sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002920sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002828sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002825sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002820sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002680sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000027C4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000027C0sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002653sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002652sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002651sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000025B0sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000025A3sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000024DFsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000024D1sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002850sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000269Esv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000027DFsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000266Fsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000025A2sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000245Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000024DBsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000024CBsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000024CAsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000248Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000248Asv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000244Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000244Asv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002421sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00002411sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000084CAsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00007601sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00007199sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00007111sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d00007010sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: libata vermagic: 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 SMP mod_unload 586 4KSTACKS
Created attachment 297374 [details] anaconda dump
I found the problem here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=157385 I found one blank line in /etc/modprobe.conf, removed it, wrote the file and started again. That was what threw anaconda into a failure state.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241991 ***