Bug 496341 - anaconda fails on empty DOS part table
Summary: anaconda fails on empty DOS part table
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: parted
Version: 11
Hardware: ppc
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joel Andres Granados
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: anaconda_trace_hash:a0223d298f0d2ab3c...
: 503845 506086 523004 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-17 21:50 UTC by Geoff Levand
Modified: 2023-09-14 01:15 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-06-28 11:53:54 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


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Attached traceback automatically from anaconda. (46.37 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-17 21:50 UTC, Geoff Levand
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Description Geoff Levand 2009-04-17 21:50:53 UTC
The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 11.5.0.45 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.__disk = _ped.Disk(device.getPedDevice())
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 703, in __init__
    self.partedDisk = parted.Disk(device=self.partedDevice)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1086, in addUdevDiskDevice
    initcb=cb, initlabel=initlabel, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1159, in addUdevDevice
    device = self.addUdevDiskDevice(info)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1593, in populate
    self.addUdevDevice(dev)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 288, in reset
    self.devicetree.populate()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 101, in storageInitialize
    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/text.py", line 701, in run
    anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 966, in <module>
    anaconda.intf.run(anaconda)
NotImplementedError: Partition 3 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.  This is still unsupported.

Comment 1 Geoff Levand 2009-04-17 21:50:57 UTC
Created attachment 340099 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.

Comment 2 Geoff Levand 2009-04-17 22:04:10 UTC
Just before doing the install I used fdisk to write an empty DOS partition table to the HD (/dev/sda).

The failure was on Mac G5.  I tested on PS3 and it works OK, so this is not a high priority bug for me.

-Geoff

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2009-04-21 17:53:00 UTC
Looks like parted is detecting this as a pc98 partition table, judging from where the error message comes from.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:02:50 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Joel Andres Granados 2009-06-12 13:28:03 UTC
*** Bug 503845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Joel Andres Granados 2009-07-22 12:24:46 UTC
Geoff:
What does `parted DEVICE print free` spit out.  Also, can you post the output of 'fdisk DEVICE -l`

Comment 7 Joel Andres Granados 2009-07-22 13:12:40 UTC
*** Bug 506086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Chris Lumens 2009-09-14 13:36:49 UTC
*** Bug 523004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Jean-François Rameau 2009-09-14 18:03:34 UTC
Infos reletive to #523004 

#parted /dev/sda print free

Model: ATA WDC WD400BB-00DE (scsi)
Disque /dev/sda : 40,0GB
Taille des secteurs (logiques/physiques): 512B/512B
Table de partition : msdos

Numéro  Début   Fin     Taille  Type     Système de fichiers  Fanions  
 1      32,3kB  206MB   206MB   primary  ext3                 démarrage
 2      206MB   40,0GB  39,8GB  primary                       lvm      



#fdisk /dev/sda -l

Disque /dev/sda: 40.0 Go, 40020664320 octets
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylindres of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x91cb6d00

Périphérique Amorce    Début         Fin      Blocs    Id  Système
/dev/sda1   *           1          25      200781   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              26        4865    38877300   8e  Linux LVM

Comment 10 Hans de Goede 2009-12-16 14:21:30 UTC
Jean-Francois,

Thanks for the info, parted seems to identify your disk correctly as an msdos partitioned disk (and not an pc98 one).

Which version of parted did you use ? Can you please retry with parted from F-11 or F-12 ? If you are not running F-11 or F-12, could you boot a livecd and run parted from there ?

Thanks,

Hans


As for the original reporter of this bug, and those who had duplicate bugs, also please try to run "parted /dev/sdX print" using F-11 or F-12 parted.

Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 13:45:01 UTC
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Comment 12 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 11:53:54 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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Comment 13 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:15:58 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days


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