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Bug 73933

Summary: Problems with partitioning; and "rpm.error: cannot open" at beginning of rpm copy
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Andre Reis <black_vise01>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Andre Reis 2002-09-13 14:46:14 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Listing 2 problems when installing RH 7.3

Partitioning: Autopartitioning unallocated space. Before the file copying 
process, when the partitions are being created, error " Unable to mount /hdb1; 
Partition may be already formatted(...)". Strange soluction: manually creating 
partitions with Partition Magic 7 and then simply assigning mount points seems 
to work.

RPMs: see the attached dump. Error "rpm.error: cannot open" (in .iso with both 
MD5sum/linux-mediacheck being successful) in a simple installation (Worstation 
& KDE).

Andre

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installation from CD-ROM.

	

Additional info:

10Gb Western Digital Drive running as Slave in Main IDE Channel. Plextor 
PX1210 CD-ROM.
Comment 1 Andre Reis 2002-09-13 14:47:19 UTC 
Created attachment 76044 [details]
Anaconda Dump file
Comment 2 Andre Reis 2002-09-15 16:19:05 UTC 
Just a note: the "rpm.error: cannot open" error happens in the end of 
the "Copying image file to hard disk" (or similar).

Andre
Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-09-16 19:07:45 UTC 
I would recommend testing your CDs:

  http://people.redhat.com/~msf/mediacheck.html
Comment 4 Andre Reis 2002-09-16 21:40:58 UTC 
As stated in the Bug description:
"(in .iso with both MD5sum/linux-mediacheck being successful)"

But it's weird, yes.

Andre
Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-02 19:57:48 UTC 
My apologies I overlooked that information.

Any ideas Jeremy?
Comment 6 Andre Reis 2002-10-02 20:45:15 UTC 
A sidenote, none of these problems occured with RedHat 7.2. 
I'll try 8.0 when possible.

Andre
Comment 7 Jeremy Katz 2002-10-02 21:56:27 UTC 
It's related to the cramfs errors in the syslog -- how did you boot the system?
Comment 8 Andre Reis 2002-10-03 17:39:21 UTC 
Master CD-ROM, set as #1 boot device. Graphic installation, afterwards.

Andre
Comment 9 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-03 19:31:36 UTC 
This is a media/CD drive issue.  You may want to consider trying a different CD
drive or brand of CD media.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***
Comment 10 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-20 17:38:25 UTC 
Time tracking values updated