Created attachment 489598 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.

Created attachment 489658 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.

Is this reproducible with F15 alpha or beta?

*** Bug 733541 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 733170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Created attachment 520759 [details]
logs

I reproduced this issue while testing fix for bug #728883. Attaching logs.

I expect this to be fixed in F16-Beta.TC1. The fix was a change to lorax that landed in lorax-16.4.2-1.

I hit this issue with F16 Beta TC1, when using updates.img for working around #728883. Probably not fixed yet.

I see what the problem here is after another look. Try with this on your kernel command line:

 updates=http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates-693095.img


This also contains Ales' fix for bug 728883.

FC16 alpha here.

Performing a DVD install into a virtualbox VM.
The VM was previously used for FC15 testing, so this is a reinstall over existing.

I used David's updates-693095.img file. 
Unfortunately that causes another issue.


Running anaconda 16.14.6, the fedora system installer - please wait.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 614, in <module>
    from pyanaconda import kickstart
  File "/tmp/updates/pyanaconda/kickstart.py", line 235, in <module>
    class AutoPart(commands.autopart.F16)AutoPart):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'F16_AutoPart'

(In reply to comment #9)
> I see what the problem here is after another look. Try with this on your kernel
> command line:
> 
>  updates=http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates-693095.img
> 
> 
> This also contains Ales' fix for bug 728883.

This updates.img fixes the problem for me.

anaconda-16.17-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.17-1.fc16

Package anaconda-16.17-1.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing anaconda-16.17-1.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-16.17-1.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

I just encountered this crash with F16 beta TC2 live image, which has anaconda-16.17-1.fc16.x86_64.  What other details should I provide?

anaconda-16.18-1.fc16.x86_64 also crashed for me.  The tail of /tmp/anaconda.log includes:

21:28:02,537 DEBUG anaconda: dispatch: enablefilesystems is a direct step
21:40:26,444 CRIT anaconda: anaconda 16.18 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devicelibs/lvm.py"
, line 400, in lvdeactivate
    raise LVMError("lvdeactivate failed for %s: %s" % (lv_name, msg))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 
2589, in _teardown
    lvm.lvdeactivate(self.vg.name, self._name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 
761, in teardown
    self._teardown(recursive=recursive)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", 
line 485, in execute
    self.device.teardown()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 316, in processActions
    action.execute(intf=self.intf)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 384, in doIt
    self.devicetree.processActions()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packages.py", line 122, in turnOnFilesystems
    anaconda.storage.doIt()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 373, in dispatch
    self.dir = self.steps[self.step].target(self.anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 241, in go_forward
    self.dispatch()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 1203, in nextClicked
    self.anaconda.dispatch.go_forward()
LVMError: lvdeactivate failed for lv_root_rawhide:   Volume group "vg_tower" not found
  Skipping volume group vg_tower

I was trying to set up a custom install, where vg_tower is a pre-existing volume group with five partitions (swap, shared /home, and three different / of a triple-boot machine) as well as some free space, and where I was selecting /home without reformatting as well as one of the partitions to be formatted as /.

(In reply to comment #14)
> I just encountered this crash with F16 beta TC2 live image, which has
> anaconda-16.17-1.fc16.x86_64.  What other details should I provide?

Please attach the file matching /tmp/anaconda-tb-* to this bug report as a plain text attachment. Thanks.

Will do, once I reflash my liveusb to go back to a point where I can reproduce it (I just upgraded to beta rc1, and the problem seems to be gone).

Created attachment 523437 [details]
as requested by comment 16

(In reply to comment #17)
> Will do, once I reflash my liveusb to go back to a point where I can reproduce
> it (I just upgraded to beta rc1, and the problem seems to be gone).

Your error is really different from the one described in this bug. Did you say that this error is no longer occurring with later trees on a system that exhibits the failure? If so, that indicates the problem has been resolved one way or another. If not, please file a separate bug.

(In reply to comment #19)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > Will do, once I reflash my liveusb to go back to a point where I can reproduce
> > it (I just upgraded to beta rc1, and the problem seems to be gone).
> 
> Your error is really different from the one described in this bug. Did you say
> that this error is no longer occurring with later trees on a system that
> exhibits the failure? If so, that indicates the problem has been resolved one
> way or another. If not, please file a separate bug.

Both stock beta TC2, and TC2 plus hand-upgrading to anaconda-16.18-1, hit the bug; but beta RC1 (which also has anaconda-16.18-1) succeeded.  Since the problem went away with RC1, I don't think we need any further bugs filed, but it is still rather annoying that I don't have a root cause (the same anaconda version in both my hand-upgraded TC2 and RC1, so it was the interaction with some other package that also got upgraded for RC1, and without knowing which package made the difference, we risk regressing in the future).

There's a bunch of mess in your syslog from udev and things it's trying to run, so my money's on either a udev or kernel update.

*** Bug 731264 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 733048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

anaconda-16.17-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

*** Bug 742638 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***