Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75894
Installer crashed during Upgrade of a system with LVM partition
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:33 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 Description of problem: Installer crashed during 'Upgrade Existing System' System information: i686 laptop (Dell Inspiron 8000) with two hard disks hda has ext3 partitions hdc has one large LVM partition (created with LVM under RedHat 7.3) The install fails when trying to detect existing partitions (detailed trace included below) If I remove physically the hard disk that has the LVM partition (hdc), the install works successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create an LVM partition on a hard disk in a RedHat 7.3 system. (I have ond hard disk setup with one large LVM partition for the whole disk) 2.Reboot the machine with RedHat 8.0 install CD 3.Select 'Upgrade Existing System' duering the install. The install crashes upon detection of existing partitions. Actual Results: Install crashed, unable to upgrade system. Expected Results: Install should recognize LVM partitions, or at least ignore partitions that it cannot deal with instead of crash. Additional info: Trace of the crash below (copied from the screen): Traceback (most recent call last) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClicked set.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext set.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py", line 37, in findRootParts parts = findExistingRoots(intf, id, chroot) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py", line 49, in findExistingRoots rootparts = diskset.findExistingRootPartitions(intf, chroot) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 38, in vgscan raise SystemError, "vgscan failed" SystemError: vgscan failed
If you go over to tty2 and run vgscan by hand, what sort of error message do you get?
-/bin/sh-2.05b# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) Segmentation fault
But if you run vgscan when you reboot into 7.3 it has no problems?
I'm having a similar problem. Two HDDs in an i686 IBM ThinkPad 600X. hd0 is HPFS/NTFS (W2K), hd1 is Linux Native (RH 7.3). RH8 anaconda install crashes when trying to 'upgrade exisitng' or 'install workstation'. Don't have a traceback, the 'save to disk' failed to write to my floppy. But this is always reproducable.
Has the original bug reporter had a chance to try running vgscan on their 7.3 system?
>Has the original bug reporter had a chance to try running vgscan on their 7.3 system? No, because this machine is now upgraded to 8.0 (physically unplugging the hard disk containing LVM partition allowed the install to go through) and I reduilt partitions on that disk too,so I won't be able to test either the LVM partition or 7.3 on the same setup. Sorry.
No problem, good to here you have it working!