Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.
For bugs related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 product line. The current stable release is 5.10. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and above, please visit Red Hat JIRA https://issues.redhat.com/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa?pid=12332745 to report new issues.

Bug 460602

Summary: anaconda fails to create the last swap LV
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Wenzhuo Zhang <wenzhuo>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.2   
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-09-26 19:45:50 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Wenzhuo Zhang 2008-08-28 23:26:28 UTC
Description of problem:

On a server machine with 6*146G SAS RAID array, anaconda fails to create the last swap LV under the default partition scheme.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL5.2

How reproducible:

Always reproducible on this machine.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a server machine with 6 146G SAS RAID array and boot rhel 5.2 cd/dvd.

# fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 733.9 GB, 733909245952 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 89226 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2              14       89226   716603422+  8e  Linux LVM

2. Choose the default partition scheme and don't select "Reviewing..."
3. Anaconda fails to create the last swap LV because of insufficient free PE.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

To workaround this problem, I had to review the default partition scheme and assign the / LV a little less space than the default value.

The machine is co-located in an IDC now. So please don't ask me to provide more debugging information or to try a fix.

Comment 1 Wenzhuo Zhang 2008-08-29 01:49:57 UTC
Before choosing the default partition scheme, select "remove all linux partitions".

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2008-09-26 19:45:50 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463431 ***