Description of problem: While doing a custom disk layout, the installer hung. I had configured a root partition and a swap partition. The swap partition was 510 MB, but I decided to shrink it to 500 MB using the fixed-size option. The installer hung with the OK button depressed. After switching to a console and back, the installer window was completely white. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 13:06:23,799 INFO loader: anaconda version 13.35 on x86_64 starting F13-Beta Net installer on CDRW How reproducible: Haven't tried. Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Logs to follow.
Created attachment 401434 [details] anaconda-13.35-hang-1.tgz $ tar -cva -f anaconda-13.35-hang-1.tgz anaconda-13.35-hang-1/ $ tar -tvf anaconda-13.35-hang-1.tgz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2010-03-20 06:23 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 40602 2010-03-20 06:19 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/program.log -rw-r--r-- root/root 47845 2010-03-20 06:21 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/X.log -rw-r--r-- root/root 7621 2010-03-20 06:20 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/anaconda.log -rw-r--r-- root/root 345 2010-03-20 06:07 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/anaconda-yum.conf -rw-r--r-- root/root 235 2010-03-20 06:06 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/libuser.iBKdSB -rw-r--r-- root/root 217390 2010-03-20 06:20 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/storage.log -rw-r--r-- root/root 20480 2010-03-20 06:07 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/storage.state -rw-r--r-- root/root 58326 2010-03-20 06:22 anaconda-13.35-hang-1/syslog
After rebooting into F12: [stephent@walnut ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xff3d5e55 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 14 4418 35383162+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sdb3 4419 4802 3082399 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 4802 4866 512000 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 4802 4866 510976 82 Linux swap / Solaris [stephent@walnut ~]$ sudo e2fsck -nv /dev/sdb3 e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) /dev/sdb3: clean, 74218/192768 files, 468516/770599 blocks [stephent@walnut ~]$
Created attachment 401443 [details] screenshot-anaconda-13.35-hang-1.jpg Reproduced it ... screenshot while hung.
Created attachment 401449 [details] anaconda-13.35-hang-2.tgz Logs after second hang ... Approx. steps to reproduce: Select custom disk layout Delete pre-existing sdb3 (ext4), sdb5 (swap) Create "/", ext4, fixed size, 3000 MB Create swap to fill remaining. Note swap is sdb5, 510 MB. Edit swap to be a fixed size of 500 MB. Press OK. Hangs. Cursor is responsive. Consoles are functional.
This is very likely a dup of bug 567576, which is a pyparted bug which causes memory corruption, after which anaconda gets stuck into a segfault loop. Please re-open if this if you are still seeing this after bug 567576 is fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 567576 ***