Bug 61467 - Installer crashed with "ValueError: upack sequence of wrong size" on initial system install
Summary: Installer crashed with "ValueError: upack sequence of wrong size" on initial...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-20 03:32 UTC by Robert H. Powell IV
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:48:35 UTC
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Anaconda dump file produced during crash (49.00 KB, text/plain)
2002-03-20 03:33 UTC, Robert H. Powell IV
no flags Details

Description Robert H. Powell IV 2002-03-20 03:32:24 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; H010818)

Description of problem:
When installing on a Pentium 100, 128 MB RAM, hda or 3 GIG, hdb 1.5 GIG, the 
installation crashed with the following anaconda dump log attached.

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


How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

Comment 1 Robert H. Powell IV 2002-03-20 03:33:31 UTC
Created attachment 49084 [details]
Anaconda dump file produced during crash

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-21 17:12:09 UTC
There is a bug in the code to report an error condition. It appears you may
have been mounting a filesystem that was unformatted. What steps in partitioning
did you take?




Comment 3 Robert H. Powell IV 2002-03-23 20:17:34 UTC
I have two hardrives on the computer now.  When installing RedHat 7.2, I let 
the installation program remove all partions and automatically create new 
partitions and format the drive.  When it did the automatice partioning, it 
only used the first hard drive (hda) and left hdb unpartitioned and free.  The 
istallation program created a /boot, /, and /swap mounts on hda.  I left hdb 
unpartioned and free (completely empty).  I did mark "check for bad blocks" for 
each of the hda partitions listed above, and the installation program formatted 
the partitions.  Please let me know if I can provide additional information.  I 
don't know if it matters, but I am installing from a bootable CD-ROM drive, and 
I have a secondary CD-ROM Rewriteable drive on the computer as well.

R. H. Powell

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-04-04 20:16:49 UTC
Is this reproducible?

When the error occurs, could you look at VC5 (cntl-alt-f5) and see if there are
any error messages please.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-04-25 21:21:32 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.

Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-23 16:51:59 UTC
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional comments to add
to this bug.

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:35 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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