From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: There is nothing to expand upon past the summary. There is a sysreport output in an attachment for Service Request 206183. Note that I simply can not install this software as an upgrade. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go through the install process. 2. English, US 105 keyboard, Microsoft Intellimouse. 3. Doing a custom install with custom packages. 4. Then it insists the file system was not umounted cleanly. Actual Results: See above. Expected Results: It would proceed with an installation. Additional info: Nothing additional to add.
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Created attachment 59526 [details] Output from sysreport
My initial statement of the problem was: I am trying to upgrade a Redhat 7.1 system. I'm getting the message "One or more of the file systems for your Linux system was not unmounted cleanly. Please boot ..." When booting there are no complaints. I do the usual shutdown, try again the same result. I am attempting to do a custom upgrade. HELP! Thanks, Fred I can also be reache by phone at (818)352-3244, call collect if that helps. ============== It was suggested that I boot with linux rescue off the CD and run fsck. This in fact did complain about some of the partitions. These problems were cleared up, but the initial problem remained. From my next to last response on this: ============== To close this out, I've tried the following. 1. Replaced my DVD drive with a CD drive. 2. Removed hdb and removed references to it in fstab. 3. Removed some of the partitions on hda from fstab. 4. Run fsck on all remaining paritions, including the floppy drive. The attempt to install results in the same error as has been discussed previously. For god's sake, change your diagnostic to indicate which partition it is complaining about! I'd be happy to check out the changed code. =========== This above was not my first complaint about the quality of the diagnostics. I have been writing mathematical software since 1958. It took me a while, but I finally learned that when my code detects some kind of problem it pays big dividends to dump out everything that could possibly be connected with the error as part of an error message. I recommend this policy to you. ============ At one point it was requested that I send the output from sysreport. Thus I have attached this information here. This run claimed failure on collecting information about X, rtc, sound devices, /proc/bus (twice), and /etc/sendmail.cf. The latter may be due to the fact that I am running postfix. Many thanks for the help, Fred
I've just sent the following to "support". If only I had read the Installation Guide carefully, or even better if your diagnostics had pointed me in the right direction, I'd have known about cntrl-alt-F3. This told me the complaint was about /dev/hda7. So I tried changing the line LABEL=x1 /x1 ext2 defaults 0 0 to start with "/dev/hda7" instead of "Label=x1" and amazingly it got past this diagnostic. It then hung on /dev/hdb6. Making a similar change there didn't get around the problem. So I just commented out all references to hdb. The installation then went through quite smoothly. I then uncommented the references to /dev/hdb in fstab, and all seems to be working. For what it is worth, hda and hdb are on the same ide channel with hda the master and hdb the slave. Note that I did run e2fsck on the hdb entries prior to commenting them out and they all checked out o.k. It still looks like there is a problem in the installer, but not one I couldn't work around. Thanks for the help, Fred
If you look in /tmp/syslog using tty2 in the installer, do you see hdb get detected by the kernel? Additionally, if you do tune2fs -l on the devices which didn't get recognized, are the labels on them properly shown?
Sorry /tmp/syslog is no longer there, and I'm afraid I'm not willing to do a new install to check this out. "tune2fs -l /dev/hdb6" gives Filesystem volume name: y0 which was what was used for the label. Note that when doing the install I changed from using the "LABEL=" syntac to using "/dev/hdb6" in fstab, and it still complained about hdb6. I'm guessing the kernel say hdb6, since if it didn't see it, I don't see how it could have complained about it not being unmouned cleanly.
I get the same very unhelpful message "One or more of the filesystems was not unmounted cleanly". I can't upgrade to 7.3.
The installer, it seems, parses /etc/fstab differently from Linux. It does not seem to respect comments and the noauto flag quite the same way. So your Linux system can boot fine, but you can't install. But so far I've not discovered secret to help me. The microsoft-quality error message does not help.
This should be handled better in our current codebase with better diagnostic errors to allow you to fix any actual problems.