Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57784
anaconda unable to handle linear/append array on upgrade and crashes
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:48 EDT
Description of Problem: Installer generates a errormessage and dumps a trace. Says It should be sumbmitted to this location. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot from CD 2.choose expert mode 3.us, uk, no mouse text mode Actual Results: anaconda exits and the system is being shutdown Expected Results: It should install RH7.2 Additional Information: See trace
Created attachment 41267 [details] saved with installer
I'm upgrading from RH7.0. It can also be reproduced using the normal text installation procedure => I am unable to install RH7.2.
What does your /etc/raidtab look like?
Created attachment 41654 [details] As requested: my /etc/raidtab
Eventually I installed RH7.2 using a workaround. At the bootpromp I typed the following: boot: expert hde=none hdg=none This way I prevented the RH kernel to discover my two raid0 (striping) partitions residing on these drives. Of course this was only possible due to the fact that I didn't store OS related stuff on those drives. The install went flawless after that. I also removed my /etc/raidtab but I'm not sure whether that matters.
msw committed something that should fix this to CVS
This works for me now.
Trying to install RH8.0 now with a similar (but not the same) error on a similar setup. Install exits after selecting a partitioning method. Can't supply an error log/trace/dump since a write to floppy didn't work. Copying by hand: in file "usr/lib/anaconda/partRequests.py, line 604 Valuerror: Invalid raidlevel in Raidrequest.getActualSize Have to say that the summary was wrong all the time since it is not (and never has been) a RAID-0 setup but just a linear or append joining of two partitions (as can be seen from my raidtab). Sorry about that.
Created attachment 88464 [details] Tried it again, this time it worked: a dump from the errors I got
Wild - it's coming up as RAID-1
Adding CC: for katzj
This should be better in newer releases.