Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74719
Anaconda dies in iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes()
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020915 Description of problem: During install, right after X starts up the first time, this happens... (copied from screen by hand)... 1...2...3...4...5.... X server started successfully Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 639, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anacdonda/iutil.py", line 420, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevInode(drive, "/dev/%s" % (drive,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 255 in makeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode (name, fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try installing on my particular machine 2. 3. Actual Results: anaconda dies Expected Results: nice new redhat 8.0 install Additional info: My system is a bit unusual... I have a lot of devices. RAID 5 on 3Ware card is normal boot device (seen as SCSI by BIOS), 2 CD ROMS and a tape drive on Adaptec SCSI, and an IDE disk.
I have the same exact error... I found it first in bug #70350 but I don't have any LS-120 drive (everything is scsi on my machine but I've got two scsi cards, one (Adaptec), detected first, which is used by my scanner and the other (Tekram u2w) connected to my hard-drives and cdrom drives). When it happened, I switch to virtual console 3 and saw this: * Started mini-wm * anaconda floppy device fd0 fd0?? I'm not installing from a floppy but from a cd so I rebooted again from the cd and I can confirm there's a floppy access (ie light) just before anaconda crashes. Moreover, I tried other ways of starting the install: - first time I tried this: linux askmethod (booting from cd and install via nfs), failed - then I tried: linux text askmethod, failed - nothing, failed - I also tried booting on floppy (using bootnet.img) but same result (and I also got the floppy access) If I can be of any help, let me know.
Exact same problem here (log at <http://www.geocities.com/paul19223/rh8.txt>). I have an Adaptec AHA-2940UW with two hard drives and three CD drives attached. It all works in RH7.3, but the 8.0 installer dies in exactly the same place. I've tried graphical and text modes with the same result. All CDs passed MD5SUM and linux mediacheck. More details: Athlon 1.4 GHz Epox 8K7A 256MB PC2100 RAM Leadtek GeForce 4 Ti4400 SBLive! Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI ID 0: Quantum Viking II 4.5GB SCSI ID 1: Quantum Atlas 10k 18GB SCSI ID 2: Pioneer DVD-303R SCSI ID 3: Yamaha CRW-4260 SCSI ID 4: Creative CD-ROM No IDE devices of any kind
If you download the update image available at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/isys-update.img and boot with 'linux updates', providing the update disk written to a floppy when prompted, what is the last line of output that you get?
The last line was trying to make scd2 as /dev/scd2 scd2 should be my third CD-ROM drive, which identifies itself as Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:500 Rev: 2.8 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 The drive also works fine in my current RH7.3 installation.
Same thing here: trying to make scd2 as /dev/scd2
I got the same problem on an 440LX board with Adaptec 2940UW and this configuration: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.6 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TS Rev: 1.05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:A:3): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15) Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.07 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:A:4): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-303 Rev: 1.10 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:A:6): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8) Installing from PX CDROM. Also tried to disable floppy during install, as installer crashes right after accessing floppy. No change.
Note that it seems we've all got 3 cd drives (I've got one DVD, one regular CD drive and one CD writer): Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-305 Rev: 1.05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: PIONEER Model: CD-ROM DR-U16S Rev: 1.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW3200S Rev: 1.0d Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
i have a question - you all are obviously not typing all these error/status msgs in by hand - how are you dumping this information (especially the anaconda death msg)? i also have a LX motherboard with the adaptec 2940UW built in. i have two scsi devices in the chain (one happens to have multiple luns) i'll forward the results of the isys-update shortly.
> i have a question - you all are obviously not typing all > these error/status msgs in by hand Why is that "obvious"? I did in fact type it in by hand. In fact, I copied it down on paper first, then typed it in again. Being careful to get everything accurate down to the last blank space. Total time about 20 minutes. Would have been a bit quicker using a laptop rather than 2 stops via paper. :j
Same thing for me but I've got a laptop so I didn't have to use a sheet of paper. Does RedHat support installation through serial (I don't remember and my cds are at home)? If so, a serial dump would be quite handy too.
well thanks for the faithful reproduction! - as for my boot with the updates - there's no more on the other virtual terminals than there was without the isys.img - and i saw a bunch of the trying to make scd0 and scd1 and the last scd2 messages before the anaconda barf. now i'm going to try the install after removing my 'extra' cd-rom drive. here's my hard drive and SCSI bus info (cut and paste from dmesg :-) (note the AIC 7880 scsi bios is v1.32 - if it matters) hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive hdc: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive hdd: IC35L120AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 blk: queue c03d4284, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63, UDMA(33) blk: queue c03d45e8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33) blk: queue c03d4734, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdd: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=239340/16/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hdc: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > hdd: hdd1 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.4 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 243k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.6 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0j Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-5.16S Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:A:1): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-5.16S Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-5.16S Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-5.16S Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: NAKAMICH Model: MJ-5.16S Rev: 1.02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Good idea! I wanted to do that the smart way (ie by disabling 2 cd drives in the scsi card nvram) but the driver sym53cxxx or ncr53cxxx don't support this feature with Tekram's nvram (only Symbios, now LSI's nvram). Damn, I will have to disconnect them physically...
Damn, it made a difference: with only one cd drive connected it works. I'm installing right now and let you know if it works with 2.
yep - you guys might have guess from the delay that it works - i'm typing from 8.0 now... by the way if you see this error during install: ----------------| ERROR |---------------- The second stage of the install which you have selected does not match the boot disk which you are using. This shouldn't happen, and I'm rebooting your system now. --------- | OK | --------- It's likely you've not terminated your scsi chain correctly (this, ahem, happened to me....) good fortunes bug fixing around this one red hat and thanks for 8.0
Appears to definitely be the multiple SCSI cdrom drives. I'll cobble a machine together the beginning of next week to investigate and come up with a fix.
Hi, I also am have the same problem with a l440gx motherboard. I have three SCSI disks on the first internal SCSI interface and a Nakamichi MJ 5.16 Mini Changer CD-ROM drive on the second channel. This system install fine on 7.3. I believe I have fixed all the SCSI termination problems when getting 7.2 operational. Mabe I missed one?? I have tried to install it in text and graphics mode. Does not work. My error message is the same as jurgen@botz.org at the top of this bug report except for the line number on the last "file: ..." line. My line number is 265. My Configuration lines are: Video Card : Cirrus Logic GD5480 Monitor: unable to probe mouse : generic 3 Button Mouse (ps/2) By the way I am using a Belkin OnmiView 8 port KVM Switch and a Nec 1700M LCD monitor. The system has 2 450 MHZ processors with 1.5 GB of RAM. The mini-changer has the same SCSI line as das_deniz@yahoo.com except my revision numbers are 1.11 instead of 1.02 and my changer is on the second SCSI bus all by its self. Hope this help the cause. I would love to get 8.0 installed. I have some problems with system crashes and lockup under both 7.2 and 7.3. This is very !!!@@@@@!!!!. Ugggggg... thanks
Can you try with the update disk available at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/80update.img and see if it fixes the problem?
Fixed the problem for me. Thank you very much! I know why I love RedHat!
Hi, Forgive my lack of understanding. How do I use this image file to generate a new CD or boot floppy, if this is what is done with it. The image file has an _isys.so file and an image.py file. Sam
Instructions on using an update disk can be found at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/updatedisks.html. This fix has been committed to CVS
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Thanks for the instructions. The fix worked the first time. Thanks Sam
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