Description of problem: I use an old Dell T800r as my beta testbed. It has 512M RAM, 1x800MHz P3, 2 drives installed: a 9G PATA and a 4G PATA. If I do a fresh install using F12-beta and the default of both drives selected, anaconda blows chunks. It does not matter if I use the default LVM or force use of EXT3 or 4 for the volumes. Deselecting the second drive allows anaconda to succeed, and install proceeds. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: unexpected traceback Expected results: normal installation Additional info:
Please attach the complete traceback to this bug report, as there's not really enough information here for me to tell what's going wrong.
Using the automatic bugzilla filing, this marks itself as a duplicate of bugzilla 530174 related to a fault in lvm. However the traceback is different, so I doubt that. This bug also present using ext4 instead of lvm, so it would seem unlikely. Also, 530174 is marked a a duplicate of 528233, which has completely different symptoms and a solution involving a new upstream version of yum, which is clearly not the problem here. As an aside, this would seem to indicate that 530174 has been marked as a duplicate in error, and there is an uncorrected bug. 530174 should be re-opened.
Created attachment 367233 [details] teaceback from filesystem creation
Traceback from attached file: anaconda 12.37 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 916, in _getsysver if sys.hexversion < 0x02050000: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 805, in readStartupConfig startupconf.releasever = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 249, in _getConfig startupconf = config.readStartupConfig(fn, root) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 629, in doConfigSetup YumSorter._getConfig(self) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 328, in setup self.doConfigSetup(root=self.anaconda.rootPath) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1060, in doBackendSetup self.ayum.setup() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/backend.py", line 274, in doBackendSetup if anaconda.backend.doBackendSetup(anaconda) == DISPATCH_BACK: File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 200, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 123, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1195, in nextClicked self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() NameError: global name 'sys' is not defined
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 528233 ***