Bug 66568 - expected read-only character buffer, int found
Summary: expected read-only character buffer, int found
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-06-12 11:28 UTC by Christopher Cox
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:43 UTC (History)
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2002-06-19 16:13:49 UTC
Embargoed:


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Dump the installer provided (57.41 KB, text/plain)
2002-06-12 11:30 UTC, Christopher Cox
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Description Christopher Cox 2002-06-12 11:28:04 UTC
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Description of problem:
Intall died right after disk error check.
PII 350, 64M Ram, ATI 3D AGP
Two drives root and /u on hda, /backup and swap on hdc.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install->Custom->Everything
2.
3.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Christopher Cox 2002-06-12 11:30:09 UTC
Created attachment 60646 [details]
Dump the installer provided

Comment 2 Christopher Cox 2002-06-12 15:31:30 UTC
Moved swap to hda2, problem still occured.

Comment 3 Christopher Cox 2002-06-12 15:31:54 UTC
Moved swap to hda2, problem still occured.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-06-12 16:06:26 UTC
Could you try this case w/o turning on bad blocks checking?

Comment 5 Christopher Cox 2002-06-17 15:29:12 UTC
Sorry for the belated response. There was difficulty with the test platform that
was causing lockups during the installation, therefore clouding the issue.

On the new stable platform, the problem persisted and was replicable.
Turning off Bad Block checking did allow the install to proceed without error.


Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2002-06-17 21:28:26 UTC
This error occurs when the badblocks command detects bad blocks on the system. 
The traceback occurred because the output from the badblocks command has
changed, fooling our parser.

If you get this traceback it means you have bad blocks on the drive it was testing.

In the future an error dialog will be presented saying bad blocks have been
detected.

Comment 7 Michael Fulbright 2002-06-17 21:31:52 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66181 ***

Comment 8 Christopher Cox 2002-06-18 11:27:27 UTC
I disagree. The changing of platforms also involved changing hard drives from a
10Gig Maxtor to a new Western Digital 40 Gig WD400BB. 

I doubt very much that both drives have bad blocks. Checkit OK'ed the WD400BB.

Comment 9 Christopher Cox 2002-06-19 16:13:40 UTC
OK close it.

Murphy's law prevails. Purchased yet a third drive and Bad Block Checking did
not crash the install.

Of course there is a problem with your bad block reporting mechanism. 

Thanks and Regards.


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