Bug 60004 - Issues installing on new disk.
Summary: Issues installing on new disk.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: alpha
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexandre Petit-Bianco
QA Contact: Beth Uptagrafft
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 60419 61328 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-02-18 21:02 UTC by Alexandre Petit-Bianco
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-03-04 19:53:55 UTC
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Description Alexandre Petit-Bianco 2002-02-18 21:02:46 UTC
Description of Problem:

When installing on a new disk, the partition table isn't re-read properly,
making the installer abort at the time of creating filesystems.

An instance of the  python disk object seems to be kept live too long and
as a side effect, parted refuses re-read the partition table (parted
sees the device fd still open.)

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

current.

How Reproducible:

Easily

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start installing on a brand new disk or a disk whose partition table has
   been ereased (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<device> bs=512 count=<enough>)
2. Go through the installation steps
3. The installer will abort trying to format the first partition of the new
   disk.

Actual Results:

Red Hat Linux isn't installed.

Expected Results:

Parition table should be re-read correctly, allowing the creation of 
filesystems on the partitions.

Additional Information:

This has been effectively traced with gdb to a device fd still marked used by
parted, because an instance of a Python object sharing it is still alive.

We don't know yet how this instance is still kept alive.

Comment 1 Alexandre Petit-Bianco 2002-03-04 19:53:50 UTC
*** Bug 60419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Phil Copeland 2002-04-25 07:02:49 UTC
parted problem (fd left open)
Fixed for final

Closing

Phil
=--=

Comment 3 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-04-25 17:23:59 UTC
*** Bug 61328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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