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Bug 563526
| Summary: | DeviceError: ('cannot replace active format', 'vda4') | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Marian Ganisin <mganisin> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Lehman <dlehman> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | alan.ernhart, atodorov, bdwheele, ckannan, felix.kuehling, frank.arnold, hoffmann, jburke, jfrieben, jstodola, luugi.marsan, mgordon, pholica, quintela, rdoty, tao, twoerner, vgoyal | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
| Whiteboard: | anaconda_trace_hash:02b1138f15e8a5ac1f6e134bb9afaf4e05a7421d95027b8c1bfbc30735e8fe74 | ||||||||
| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-13.21.24-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | |||||||||
| : | 586985 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||||
| Last Closed: | 2010-11-10 19:39:34 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
| Embargoed: | |||||||||
| Bug Depends On: | |||||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 582286, 586985 | ||||||||
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Created attachment 389999 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.
Reproducer: run default installation right after failure described in Bug 563523 This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. I have the same problem according to Dave. attaching my anaconda-tb-* file. The partitions on that machine are Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 206MB 206MB primary ext3 boot 2 206MB 411MB 206MB primary ext3 3 411MB 617MB 206MB primary ext3 4 617MB 250GB 249GB extended 5 617MB 831MB 214MB logical ext3 6 831MB 1036MB 206MB logical ext3 7 1036MB 1242MB 206MB logical ext3 8 1242MB 1448MB 206MB logical ext3 9 1448MB 1653MB 206MB logical ext3 10 1653MB 1859MB 206MB logical ext3 11 1859MB 2065MB 206MB logical ext3 12 2065MB 2270MB 206MB logical ext3 13 2270MB 250GB 248GB logical lvm And I am trying to install /boot on sda2 and / somewhere in the lvm. Relevant part of kickstart: part pv.15 --noformat --onpart sda13 volgroup mitica --noformat --useexisting pv.15 logvol /scratch --noformat --useexisting --fstype ext3 --name=scratch --vgname=mitica logvol swap --noformat --useexisting --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=mitica logvol / --fstype ext4 --useexisting --name=root0 --vgname=mitica part /boot --fstype ext4 --onpart sda2 I tried with both ext3/4, it makes no difference. Created attachment 395547 [details]
Anaconda traceback
anaconda-13.29-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-13.29-1.fc13 python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-5.fc13,anaconda-13.29-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-5.fc13,anaconda-13.29-1.fc13 Dlehman asked that I printed on the debugger: (Pdb) print self.format.partedDisk parted.Disk instance -- type: msdos primaryPartitionCount:0 lastPartitionNumber: -1 maxPrymaryPartitionCount: 4 partitions: [] device: <parted.device.Device object at 0x7f748f763290> PedDisk: <_ped.Disk object at 0x7f748fb6fdd0> (trace copied by hand) As a workaround, if you hit this error: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 bs=1024 count=1000 fixed the issue for me (sda2 was the partition that was giving problems for me). But issue is reproducible. You try to reinstall in the same partitions with the same kickstart file, and bug happens again. python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-5.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F13/FEDORA-2010-2688 *** Bug 569357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 572326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Same thing for me with the RAID10 test case:
05:53:40,965 CRITICAL: anaconda 13.21.20 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 697, in _setFormat
raise DeviceError("cannot replace active format", self.name)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 705, in <lambda>
lambda d,f: d._setFormat(f),
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 307, in __init__
self.device.format = None
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 401, in removeEmptyExtendedPartitions
destroy_action = ActionDestroyFormat(disk)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 373, in clearPartitions
removeEmptyExtendedPartitions(storage)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 301, in execute
clearPartitions(anaconda.id.storage)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 1086, in execute
obj.execute(self.anaconda)
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1035, in <module>
ksdata.execute()
DeviceError: ('cannot replace active format', 'sdb')
*** Bug 576829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 567312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 578588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 578748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 584817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 584839 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 584973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 585103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 585909 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 587090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 595051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 607795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. |
The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 13.21.10 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 697, in _setFormat raise DeviceError("cannot replace active format", self.name) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 1170, in _setFormat StorageDevice._setFormat(self, format) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 705, in <lambda> lambda d,f: d._setFormat(f), File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 307, in __init__ self.device.format = None File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 782, in destroyDevice self.devicetree.registerAction(ActionDestroyFormat(device)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 385, in removeEmptyExtendedPartitions storage.destroyDevice(extended) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 373, in clearPartitions removeEmptyExtendedPartitions(storage) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 184, in doAutoPartition clearPartitions(anaconda.id.storage) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 205, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1396, in setScreen self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1309, in nextClicked self.setScreen () DeviceError: ('cannot replace active format', 'vda4')