Bug 89186 – Installer crashes when searching for prior Linux installations

Bug 89186 - Installer crashes when searching for prior Linux installations

Summary:	Installer crashes when searching for prior Linux installations

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2003-04-19 13:22 EDT by Charles Crain
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:53 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-05-20 14:57:59 EDT
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Crash dump for 89186 (42.14 KB, text/plain) 2003-04-22 12:33 EDT, Charles Crain	no flags	Details
crash dump from upgrade RH 8 to 9 (47.13 KB, text/plain) 2003-04-30 03:14 EDT, Willi Willig	no flags	Details
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Description Charles Crain 2003-04-19 13:22:05 EDT

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Description of problem:
Upgrading for RH 8.0 to RH 9.0.  Crashe when searching for prior linux
installations. If needed, I have a dump saved to diskette.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.booted from CD
2.Ran CD validation.
3.Answered questions.
4.Installation stated searching for linux installations
    

Actual Results:  bugzilla crash message comes up.

Expected Results:  Anaconda would find RH 8.0 installed on my system.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-04-22 12:02:17 EDT

Please attach the crash dump.

Comment 2 Charles Crain 2003-04-22 12:33:22 EDT

Created attachment 91230 [details]
Crash dump for 89186

Comment 3 Willi Willig 2003-04-30 03:14:23 EDT

Created attachment 91408 [details]
crash dump from upgrade RH 8 to 9

Comment 4 Willi Willig 2003-04-30 03:17:19 EDT

I have the same problem with my upgrade from RH Linux (with SGI XFS extension)
8 to 9. The generated crash dump has been attached to this bug.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2003-05-13 12:40:19 EDT

Is the original bug reporter using xfs as well?

We do not support XFS.

Comment 6 Willi Willig 2003-05-14 04:55:29 EDT

I think, that this problem is not related to XFS but anaconda!

Comment 7 Charles Crain 2003-05-16 12:54:53 EDT

To my knowledge, I am not running xfs.  If it is loaded, Red Hat 8 loaded when I
installed it,

Comment 8 Willi Willig 2003-05-20 12:26:43 EDT

For a better understanding -- with XFS I mean the journaling filesystem coming 
from SGI, not the font server. The installation CD with XFS coming from SGI 
(ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs) is the modified CD #1 from RedHat 
distribution with additional XFS (filesystem) support.

Comment 9 Michael Fulbright 2003-05-20 14:57:59 EDT

We do not support the XFS filesystem.

Comment 10 Willi Willig 2003-05-21 05:23:55 EDT

I don't need support for XFS filesystem, but for anaconda. It denies the 
successfull "normal" upgrade to release 9. Yesteday I could process a upgrade 
due starting the linux kernel with NOPROBE option.

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