Created attachment 330474 [details] traceback.png Description of problem: Booting and installing from the DVD tracebacks and umounts the system while attempting to start X and transition to stage#2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.5.0.11 How reproducible: 100% so far ... tested on x86_64 KVM guest, and x86_64 physical system ... both DVD installs Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system with x86_64 DVD 2. Skip (or accept) DVD check Actual results: X fails to start, a traceback is shown and the system umounts all mounted volumes. See attached screenshot (transcribed below): Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 921, in <module> anaconda.id = instClass.installDataClass(anaconda, extraModules, opts.display_mode, anaconda.backend) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py", line 344, in __init__ self.reset() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py", line 70, in reset self.iscsi = iscsi.iscsi() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iscsi.py", line 227, in __init__ self.fwinfo = self._queryFirmware() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iscsi.py", line 275, in _queryFirmware result = iutil.execWithCapture(ISCSIADM, argv) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 138, in execWithCapture except OSError, (errno, msg): ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack Expected results: * Successfully transition to stage#2 Additional info: * added to F11Alpha for review as an alpha blocker.
Created attachment 330476 [details] anaconda-logs.tgz I've ScrollLock'd the screen right before it umounts the drives ... and uploaded the log files ... # tar -ztvf /tmp/anaconda-logs.tgz -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2009-11-05 16:46 tmp/anaconda-logs.tgz -rw-r--r-- root/root 345 2009-11-05 16:33 tmp/anaconda-yum.conf -rw-r--r-- root/root 1613 2009-11-05 16:33 tmp/anaconda.log -rw------- root/root 235 2009-11-05 16:33 tmp/libuser.LVe25E -rw-r--r-- root/root 46 2009-11-05 16:33 tmp/program.log -rw-r--r-- root/root 50476 2009-11-05 16:34 tmp/syslog drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-11-05 16:33 tmp/updates/
Jesse said this is not still happening with today's rawhide. Is that a fact?
Nope, no longer happening with F11 Alpha.
It's magic.