Created attachment 358463 [details] Kickstart template for cobbler Description of problem: Anaconda crashes claiming there is not enough space on the LVM vg for the lv. Once it fails, anaconda completely rolls over and dies, taking out the entire system. There won't be any tracebacks or logs included because once the system shuts down, there's no way i can get anything out of it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 11 stock How reproducible: I'll attach a kickstart template for cobbler Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert kickstart in cobbler along with acompanyning profile. 2. Provision machine 3. Watch the fail Actual results: Nasty traceback and then a reboot Expected results: Automated install Additional info: You would think LVM on top of software RAID would work, wouldn't you?
Can you get a picture of the crash, say from a digital camera? Alternatively, removing "reboot" from your kickstart file might prevent it from rebooting after the crash.
Apparently changing the minimum size of the two raid partitions solves the problem. I'm going to presume the issue lies somewhere how anaconda tries to resolve the potential layout. I'll attach a slightly modified version of the above template.
yeah, i'll switch the kickstart back and take a picture for shits and giggles.
Created attachment 358469 [details] updated version of the previous kickstart
better yet, i'll have a video as soon as my phone uploads it
Created attachment 358537 [details] opname - anaconda crashing completely when trying to reason about kickstarts
So i'm seeing two possible bugs here. One is that anaconda ignores the --grow parameter and crashes when it thinks it won't have the space. The second is that when crashing in such a case, it takes the whole system down making it harder to debug. The third is that reboot won't affect it, i've tried it both ways.
Yaakov, I believe that the issue is that the kickstart code in F-11 and later does the initial Logical Volume creation before growing (and then will grow them too if requested). All in all it isn't strange that asking for a 200 MB PV and then creating a 10G LV in a VG consisting of only that PV fails. But we should not traceback but instead report a decent error. Since this is mostly kickstart related (it was assigned to me because of the RAID involvement), I'm reassigning this to clumens, who knows the kickstart code best.
Hans, Personally i think that it shouldn't ignore --grow when doing the calculation. I understand the strangeness, and i've adjusted our kickstarts on our machines accordingly. Still, it was a frustrating issue because it's not documented. If you're feeling especially lazy, just update the documentation and make it spit back a nicer error ;).
Can you reproduce this with F13 alpha or beta? If so, can you please use the exception dialog to either file a new bug or scp the traceback file to another computer? Alternatively, you can switch over to tty2 (may need to use the nokill parameter) grab /tmp/anaconda-tb-*, scp it to another computer, and then attach it to this bug report?
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