Bug 78826 - System Error. vgscan failed
Summary: System Error. vgscan failed
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-01 18:11 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-02 15:58:51 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-12-01 18:11:26 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
Traceback (most recent call last)
File"/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line623, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File"/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line150, in nextClicked self.moveStep()
File"/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line215, in moveStep 
rc = apply(func,self.bindArgs(args))
File"/usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line57, in partitionObjectsInitialise 
partitions.setFromDisk(diskset)
File"/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py" line 184 in setFromDisk lvm.vgscan()
File="/usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 38, in vgscan raise SystemError, "vgscan 
failed"
SystemError. vgscan failed

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.restart redhat 8 instaler
2.when it cones to partitioning the drive select auto and wait for the error
3.
	

Actual Results:  click ok and the installation process terminated.

Expected Results:  the istallation should have continued on instead of 
resetting the machine.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-02 15:58:41 UTC
Have you ever configured LVM on the disks in this system?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-12-02 17:51:44 UTC
Have overcome the problem. rebuilt the floppy disk used to boot the system 
ready for loading and now works fine.  probably an error on my part.

Tom


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