The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 11.5.0.28 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 852, in __init__ raise DeviceError("cannot find parted partition instance") File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 197, in PartitionDeviceFactory return PartitionDevice(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1010, in addUdevDevice parents=[disk]) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1272, in populate self.addUdevDevice(dev) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 221, in reset self.devicetree.populate() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 64, in storageInitialize anaconda.id.storage.reset() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 205, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 128, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1317, in nextClicked self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() DeviceError: cannot find parted partition instance
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Anaconda said it didn't like my partition table, and asked if it could reinitialize it. I told it to go ahead with it, and it appears it did indeed clear the partition table (post-mortem inspection of the drive shows no partition table now), but then the backtrace.
fwiw, the partition table *was* a bit wonky, but not invalid... The drive originally had a 150G sda1, then an sda2 that started after it. The huge sda1 was deleted w/fdisk, and sda1 was recreated as a 200M partition (because grub was falling down trying to boot the 150G partition directly). So there was a big gap between sda1 and sda2 that anaconda apparently choked on.
I've fixed this traceback, though the troubles handling a strange partitioning table is certainly still a problem. I'm going to dupe this one to the bug that I fixed about the partitioning table. Can you try again with the next build of anaconda and open a new bug if we still say your partition table is unreadable? Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 489122 ***