Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 457110
vfat partitions cause Anaconda installer to throw an exception
Last modified: 2008-10-21 17:13:35 EDT
Every time I attempt to install Fedora 9 from the install DVD, it throws an exception at the beginning of install if it even senses the presence of a vfat partition. It crashes whether I'm telling it to format a vfat, to install to a vfat, or even simply to mount a vfat partition without doing anything else. Obviously this is a regression of some sort from F8 (because although I got an exception in F8, it wasn't due to the vfat partition).
Can you attach the traceback you're getting? I've attempted to reproduce this but was unable to do so.
I'm not 100% sure how I would get it in this case; is there an option to email the traceback or write it to disk somewhere? I mean, since I don't get through the install, the hard drives still don't appear to have anything on them...
When F10 Beta comes out, there will be an option in the traceback popup that will allow you to save it directly to bugzilla. The feature was added to Alpha, but most likely was broken by the recent bugzilla upgrade. You're welcome to try the Alpha to see if it works.
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.