From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: While installing Redhat 8.0 from hard drive, I get messages saying the partition table is "inconsistent." If I ignore the messages and continue, the installer crashes and tells me "vgscan failed." I partitioned my harddrive using FIPS. I am booting from a floppy drive, using the boot.img file I obtained from a Redhat 7.3 distribution I purchased in China. I cannot boot directly from the CDs that came with that distribution, and when I try to boot from a floppy and then install from the CD, the installer tells me it cannot find the images. So I downloaded the 8.0 iso images from the website. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to install Redhat Linux booting from floppy. 2. 3. Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 694, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/src/build/148651-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 446, in run File "/usr/src/build/148651-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext File "/usr/src/build/148651-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep File "/usr/src/build/148651-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 57, in partitionObjectsInitialize File "/usr/src/build/148651-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 184, in setFromDisk File "/usr/src/build/148651-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 38, in vgscan SystemError: vgscan failed Local variables in innermost frame: rc: 24320 Dispatcher instance, containing members: method: HardDriveInstallMethod instance, containing members: messageWindow: <bound method InstallInterface.messageWindow of <text.InstallInterface instance at 0x85240f4>> discImages: {1: psyche-i386-disc1.iso} fnames: {} isoDir: /tmp/isodir/ tree: None rootPath: /mnt/sysimage fstype: vfat device: hda5 path: mediaIsMounted: 0 isoDirIsMounted: 0
Have you ever used LVM on these drives?
I don't think so. What is "LVM?"
LVM stands for 'Logical Volume Manager'. The vgscan command looks for existing LVM installations. Apparently the command is failing on your system because it is confused by your current partitioning.
Noting we should add a option to skip this scan since it seems unrealiable on certain systems.
Instead added code so that if vgscan fails, we just disable lvm.
I'm going through Bugzilla closing some bugs that have been marked as Modified for some period of time. I believe that most of these issues have been fixed, so I'm resolving these bugs as Rawhide. If the bug you are seeing still exists, please reopen this report and mark it as Reopened.