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.
*** Bug 60419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
parted problem (fd left open) Fixed for final Closing Phil =--=
*** Bug 61328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***