Bug 473800 - upgrade f9->f10 with Promise pdc2027x hang
Summary: upgrade f9->f10 with Promise pdc2027x hang
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dmraid
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: LVM and device-mapper development team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 473801 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-30 18:06 UTC by Levente Farkas
Modified: 2009-12-18 07:03 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:03:14 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Levente Farkas 2008-11-30 18:06:26 UTC
hi,
i try to upgrade from f9->f10 the graphical installer simple hang (which is
imho a bug). when i start it in text mode i've got an error that it can't find
/dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg and neither retry nor cancel help. so currently on
that machine it's not possible to upgrade.
while in the console the error:
-------------------------------------------
ERROR: Activating raid pdc_fbdiccjg failed:
       table: 0 0 linear /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg
       exception: size must be positive
CRITICAL: parted exception: Error:
       Could not start device /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg no such file or
directory
-------------------------------------------
the machine is an asus p4b533-e motherboard with promise pdc20276 fake raid
controller which is disabled in the bios and there is no disk on it, but the
kernel still find it. it has 2 pata disk with 2 partition which yield:
- md0 /boot
- md1 lvm vg (inside lv swap and /)
but as anaconda can't find the installed system i'm not able to upgrade
(preupgrade failed with the same problem).

a few more info about the system:
-------------------------------------------
# cat /proc/partitions 
major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0   78184008 sda
   8     1     104391 sda1
   8     2   78075900 sda2
   8    16   78184008 sdb
   8    17     104391 sdb1
   8    18   78075900 sdb2
   9     1   78075776 md1
 253     0   15335424 dm-0
 253     1    2097152 dm-1
 253     2   60620800 dm-2
   9     0     104320 md0
 253     3   60619772 dm-3
# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] 
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
      78075776 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>
# cat /etc/fstab 
/dev/System/root        /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/md0                /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/System/swap        swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
# cat /etc/grub.conf 
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/System/root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/md0
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Upgrade to Fedora 10 (Cambridge)
 kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade
repo=hd:UUID=a310d15b-4a9b-44a0-a50c-6f025004e0b5:/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
stage2=http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img
ks=hd:UUID=a28359f7-e1e3-8e6c-7cea-f2167df41199:/upgrade/ks.cfg
 initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686)
 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/System/root
 initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686.img
title Memtest86+ (2.01)
 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /memtest86+-2.01 ro root=/dev/System/root

Comment 1 Thomas Pemberton 2008-12-11 15:16:01 UTC
*** Bug 473801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 R Dhushyanth 2009-03-01 03:10:25 UTC
Please take a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409931

If the temporary fixes stated there work for you then well and good. In any case we need more debugging information

So try this.  Start the install with nodmraid, and as soon as you get to
stage 2 (i.e. when the graphics system has just started up), do the following:

1) hit ctrl+alt+f2 .  You should get to a shell.
2) cd /tmp
3) mkdir raiddata
4) cd raiddata
5) dmraid -D -r
6) cd ..
7) tar cjf raiddata.tar.bz2 raiddata

And then attach that tarball to this bug (you may need to bring up the network,
etc.)
 
Note: if this bug seems to be similar to the bug stated above, then please mention clearly so that it can be marked as a duplicate

Comment 3 Levente Farkas 2009-03-03 21:29:23 UTC
i already update my laptop with nodmraid so i can't test it anymore even though it's a very big bug (imho).

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