Bug 742888 - F16Beta Anaconda crashes when trying to rescue install on BIOS RAID
Summary: F16Beta Anaconda crashes when trying to rescue install on BIOS RAID
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: RejectedBlocker
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-03 09:42 UTC by Jes Sorensen
Modified: 2013-02-14 01:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-14 01:09:31 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
picture of crash screen (1.05 MB, image/jpeg)
2011-10-03 09:42 UTC, Jes Sorensen
no flags Details
anaconda.log from similar crash during install (8.00 KB, text/plain)
2011-10-03 10:46 UTC, Jes Sorensen
no flags Details

Description Jes Sorensen 2011-10-03 09:42:26 UTC
Created attachment 526008 [details]
picture of crash screen

Description of problem:
Upgraded from F15 to F16Beta on a system running software BIOS RAID, which means the system disk shows up md126.

Something went wrong with the boot loader install in the upgrade, so I tried F16's Fedora rescue mode, using the F16Beta image installed onto a USB stick using livecd-tools.

When examining the system looking for the disks, Anaconda explodes without giving me access to the mode where I can save the crash log etc.

Photo of crash screen attached instead.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Whatever is in F16Beta

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jes Sorensen 2011-10-03 10:46:32 UTC
Created attachment 526017 [details]
anaconda.log from similar crash during install

anaconda.log from trying a fresh install with F16Beta from a DVD

Comment 3 David Lehman 2011-10-03 15:21:51 UTC
Please attach /tmp/program.log and /tmp/storage.log from the rescue or install attempt.

Comment 6 David Lehman 2011-10-03 17:00:00 UTC
There's a problem in the interaction between anaconda and mdadm's new systemd service that activates all md devices it can find, this one specific to fwraid types handled by mdadm. I have a similar system here I can work on and will update the bug when I have news.

Comment 7 Adam Williamson 2011-10-04 20:46:10 UTC
+1 blocker, per Beta criterion "The rescue mode of the installer must be able to detect and mount (read-write and read-only) LVM, encrypted, and RAID (BIOS, hardware, and software) installations".

Comment 8 David Lehman 2011-10-05 20:03:32 UTC
I did an install of the beta by netinst-iso-on-usb and did not have any issues like this. My system uses imsm raid0 across two physical disks.

The immediate problem I see in your logs is that the udevdb entry for md126 does not contain any of the information that would normally be imported via /lib/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid.rules.

Is there something about your array that causes it to be in some non-standard state when it first gets started (eg: clear, inactive)? As soon as you seen the first anaconda screen, switch to tty2 and cat /proc/mdstat just in case there's anything that jumps out at us.

Comment 9 Jes Sorensen 2011-10-06 10:35:15 UTC
I spent all morning trying to reproduce this, but I cannot get it to go up
in flames the same way as it did when I first tried. I did get it to crash
though, so I will upload a fresh set of logfiles, including the mdstat
output.

Note that when I first had this problem, the system had just two disks,
which I configured as one large IMSM raid in raid1 mode. It is likely the
issue is related to the disks syncing in raid1 mode when they are first
created.

Have a look at the logfiles that I will upload in a minute.

Cheers,
Jes

Comment 16 David Lehman 2011-10-06 14:16:29 UTC
The last logs are from a completely unrelated bug (bug 731356).

Comment 17 Jes Sorensen 2011-10-06 14:27:11 UTC
I was afraid of that :( I will try again later and see if I can reproduce
it again.

I do suspect it has to do with raid1 devices being in a dirty state when
it happens.

Comment 18 Adam Williamson 2011-10-07 17:37:36 UTC
Discussed at 2011-10-07 blocker review meeting. Rejected as a blocker as it's unreproducible and seems to be caused by dirty RAID state.

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