Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64846
7.3 Installer crashes when anaconda starts and encounters a reiserfs filesystem
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: When attempting to boot off of the RedHat 7.3 install CD, the system boots and starts anaconda. When it reaches this point, it crashes with the following error: Running anaconda - please wait... Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/anaconfa", line 67, in ? import dispatch File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 19 in ? from packages import readPackages, checkDependenceies, doInstall File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 25, in ? import fsset File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 355, in ? fileSystemTypeRegister(reiserfsFileSystem()) File "/usr/lib/anaconfa/fsset.py", line 316 in __init__ seld.partedFileSystemType = parted.file_system_type_get("reiserfs") parted.error: unknown file system type install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 (and proceeds to shut down) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system off of install CD 2. Start Installer 3. Watch Crash Actual Results: See description Expected Results: The installer should have started. Additional info:
Also, FWIW there are no current Reiser filesystems on this box. There were at one time but they aren't present any longer.
Please boot the installer, and when you reach the welcome screen hit cntl-alt-f2 and goto a shell prompt. Then type: mknod /tmp/hdx where hdx is the actual name of the drive which used to have reiserfs on it. Then run: parted /tmp/hdx substituting the correct drive device again for hdx. Then say 'print' and attach the output please. I think parted is seeing the signature of the old reiserfs filesystem and getting confused.
The output is as follows: Using /tmp/hdb Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /tmp/hdb is 9729/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. (parted) print Disk geometry for /tmp/hdb: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 76316.594 primary ext2 This also happens when you attempt to boot into Rescue mode, since Anaconda still runs then. The exact same error occurs.
Matt any ideas?
any strange errors on Ctrl+Alt+F3 or Ctrl+Alt+F4? Did this media pass media check?
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to add.
I finally discovered the problem. It seems that the CDROM drive was the root of the issue. On your suggestion, I looked at the CTL-ALT-F3/F4 consoles, and it was actually the CDROM which was generating the error, not the previous hard drives. Replacing the drive fixed the issue. Thanks for the help! Joe/Oracle
Thanks - marking as a dupe of bugs of this nature. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***
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