Bug 55561 - partitioning error when creating multiple partitions
Summary: partitioning error when creating multiple partitions
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 16686
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-01 23:12 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-11-02 05:38:49 UTC
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2001-11-01 23:13 UTC, Need Real Name
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-01 23:12:28 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Description of problem:
error messages
1. Error Creating swap partition
2. Error Creating partition hdb9, message "invalid argument"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installing RedHat 7.0 using text mode
2. Use DiskDruid
3. Making multiple partitions: / 1500Mb, /usr/local 800Mb, /usr/src 
200Mb, /var 200 Mb <swap> 200Mb
NOTE: hdd is 3,2Gb and is hdb
	

Additional info:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in 
run
    rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in 
__call__
    if todo.doInstall ():
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in 
doInstall
    self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath)
  File "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems
    raise SystemError, (errno, msg)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Local variables in innermost frame:
size: 104800
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 820a8d8>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 1
errno: 22
device: hdb9
instPath: /mnt/sysimage
mntpoint: /home

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-11-01 23:13:53 UTC
Created attachment 36102 [details]
output from setup

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-11-02 15:02:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16686 ***


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