Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 440312
Fedora9 beta - can't install from LiveCD
Last modified: 2008-04-07 23:24:45 EDT
Description of problem: Can't install from LiveCD Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9, Beta, LiveCD How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just run 'liveinst' 2. Choose 'replace all' or 'replace linux' partitions 3. Actual results: Anaconda throws exception trying to [re]build logical volume layout. Expected results: Additional info: It might be a problem with my small system (192KB) that has an existing Fedora install. I just wanted to completely overwrite with the beta.
Created attachment 300116 [details] anaconda dump/log
I'm impressed you even managed to boot the live CD on a box with 192M of RAM :-) Did /dev/sda2 exist when the traceback happened? I'm guessing that based on the memory pressure, udev was slow to respond and create the devices. I committed something yesterday which should help that situation a bit if so.
*** Bug 440313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've been happily running Fedora on this laptop for a lone time. It's too bad that things have grown so out of hand that I can barely run the LiveCD on it. As for the disk layout before I ran liveinst - I've tried it many ways; with an extant Fedora installation or with an empty disk label. I also tried to configure my own layout which failed even more spectacularly. How can I test your recent changes (comment #2)?
The livecd actually has higher memory requirements as changes to the filesystem are kept around using a RAM based dm-snapshot device. And we'll have up a snapshot release which will include the changes either later today or tomorrow
Rawhide-20080404-Snapshot-i686-Live managed to boot & install (text mode) I only tried the 'remove all & setup default' partition mode. Note firstboot failed after install :-( See 441049 Can't login - tty messed up :-( - See 441048 Skipping that, going to init 5, system frezzes :-( - See 441051
Sounds like the anaconda bug at least is fixed