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Description of problem: Anaconda installer crashes during upgrade from Fedora11 when swapfile is used. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Try to upgrade from fedora 11 to fedora 12 with swapfile instead of swap partition. Additional info: A few days ago I was informed by system tools that upgrade from fedora 11 to fedora 12 is possible. I agreed to proceed. The upgrade procedure downloaded all packages, and restarted the system. During restart Anaconda was run, but crashed at the very first screen. In the debug screen I found the information about attempt of formating swap (or something similar). I am using swapfile in my system, so I commented the swapfile in fstab, restarted the system and upgrade process went on smoothly and without additional problems. I think it might be a problem for some users, therefore I decided to submit possible bug report.
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It is difficult, if possible at all. I tried upgrade and it crashed, then restarted upgrade, and it happen again. I red traceback in the other screen, seen the info about swap problems, commented the swap entry in fstab /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 and restarted upgrade again. It went on without any problems and now I have Fedora 12 already. I might have saved traceback somewhere (there is buttion afair in anaconda), but no idea where to find and look for it.
(In reply to comment #2) > It is difficult, if possible at all. I tried upgrade and it crashed, then > restarted upgrade, and it happen again. I red traceback in the other screen, > seen the info about swap problems, commented the swap entry in fstab > > /var/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 > > and restarted upgrade again. It went on without any problems and now I have > Fedora 12 already. I might have saved traceback somewhere (there is buttion > afair in anaconda), but no idea where to find and look for it. Ok, closing this as insufficient info for now then. When you decide to upgrade to F-13, if anaconda crashes again, please choose to save the backtrace when asked and then choose submit to bugzilla, that way we will automatically get all needed logs. Thanks, Hans