Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 603418
Exception: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Last modified: 2010-07-01 03:57:51 EDT
The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 13.42 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/block/__init__.py", line 33, in dm_log raise Exception, message File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/block/device.py", line 706, in get_map self._RaidSet__map = _dm.map(name=self.name, table=self.rs.dmTable) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/block/device.py", line 823, in activate self.map.dev.mknod(self.prefix+self.name) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1688, in handleUdevDMRaidMemberFormat rs.activate(mknod=True) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1814, in handleUdevDeviceFormat self.handleUdevDMRaidMemberFormat(info, device) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1310, in addUdevDevice self.handleUdevDeviceFormat(info, device) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 1968, in populate self.addUdevDevice(dev) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 380, in reset self.devicetree.populate() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 103, in storageInitialize storage.reset() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 205, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1313, in nextClicked self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() Exception: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Created attachment 423574 [details] Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.
During attempted install of Fedora Core 13. Reached the "select storage..." selections. I choose custom rather then basic as I am running a RAID 5 setup (HW BIOS) with 4-250gb drives. The RAID tab shows up and identified my storage device in the window. When I checked it for use and clicked next, the exception error above/that I filed is where it dumps on me. -Thanks
Brock, You are using Firmware RAID level 5 on something other then an Intel chipset, for anything but Intel Firmware RAID we use dmraid (as mdraid only supports Intel Firmware RAID). And device mapper raid (dmraid) does not support RAID level 5. This works with RHEL-5.5 / CentOS because the 5.5 kernel devicemapper code is patched to handle RAID 4/5, the Fedora kernels do not have this patch and thus when anaconda tries to setup the RAID array it fails with the following error: 23:07:57,102 ERR kernel:device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type We already have a bug for tracking this issue, esp, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533703#c17 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 533703 ***