From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Description of problem: The RH instller crashes in two different circumstances on my system that uses 3 hard drives, both seem to be related to a bug in LVM: - putting a LVM volume on one disk, and a software raid using two other disks, or - putting a LVM volume on one disk, and second LVM volumne that spans two other disks. Here's my configuration: Pentium 4 machine with 3 hard drives; one on one ide bus, and two on another ide bus. Here are the details for the two scenarios. Scenario 1: When I get to disk druid, I create these partitions on hda: /boot partition (150MB), /swap partition (2GB), and an LVM partition "Volume00" (using all remaining space on hda). Then I put three logical partitions on within Volume00. Next, I create a software raid partition on hde (whole disk) and a software raid paritition on hdf (whole disk), and tie these two together as /home in a software raid. The installer then fails later in the install process. If I try to re-run the installer, it *always* generates an exception when disk-druid starts (I can no longer get to the disk druid step in the installer). I get prompted to put in a disk to download the dump (see below). The only way I can recover from this is to use another program to wipe the disks clean. Scenario 2: When I get to disk druid step, I create the same partitions on hda as in Scenario 1 above, including the LVM volume. I create an LVM volume on hde that uses the whole disk, and an LVM volume on hdf that uses the whole disk. Then I create a logical volume that combines these two lvm volumes. When I get to the part of the part of the install script where it is just about to start installation, the installer crashes, and prompts me to put in a disk to capture the dump (see below) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See description above. Actual Results: Installer crashes after creating an LVM partition on one disk, and a RAID volume that uses two other disks; Installer also crashes after creating an LVM partition on one disk, and an LVM that uses two other disks. Expected Results: Should be able to create the parititions described above. Installer shouldn't crash. Additional info: I have two files containing dumps from these exceptions, but I see no way to upload these using this bugzilla webform.
Created attachment 90296 [details] one of the exception dumps This is one of the exception dumps I describe in the bug report
Created attachment 90297 [details] another exception dump This is the other exception dump I describe in my bug report
I've uploaded the exceptions I describe in the bug report
I could not reproduce these issues - vgscan is known to fail if fragments of data on the disk appear to be LVM. It is not a robust program. We have changed things to handle vgscan failing more gracefully and this should address a problem like yours in the future.