Bug 72260 - Installer crashes with an unhandled exception when partitioning new drive
Summary: Installer crashes with an unhandled exception when partitioning new drive
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-22 14:44 UTC by Larry Smith
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-08-22 14:51:30 UTC
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The dump file created from the error (56.73 KB, text/plain)
2002-08-22 14:51 UTC, Larry Smith
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Description Larry Smith 2002-08-22 14:44:54 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
when using autopartition I get an unhandled exception error that tells me to save the dump file to a floppy disk and to come here for help.
 
     OR 
Platform: Alli386alphasparcnoarchia64i586i686sparc64sparcv9alphaev6s/390athlonarm7arm9am31am33mips32mips64mipstx39mipstx49mipsrm7000mipsnecvr4xxxpowerpcsh3sh4sparclitestrongarmv850xscaleothersynths390xparisc11  Component Text:   
Priority: highnormallow  Severity: securityhighnormallowenhancementtranslation  
    

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. restart installation
2. accept the defaults
3. select autopartition
	

Actual Results:  I get an unhandled exception error that tells me to save the dump file to a floppy disk and to come here for help.

Expected Results:  autopartition should partition the drive and continue with installation.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Larry Smith 2002-08-22 14:51:21 UTC
Created attachment 72264 [details]
The dump file created from the error

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-22 16:21:51 UTC
There are tons of read errors from /dev/hda. It looks like the drive may be bad.


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