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Bug 568556 - custom partitioning fails with error dump
Summary: custom partitioning fails with error dump
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 568460
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 13
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-26 00:41 UTC by Steve Tyler
Modified: 2010-02-26 20:27 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-02-26 15:45:02 UTC
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error dump (deleted)
2010-02-26 00:45 UTC, Steve Tyler 		no flags Details
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Description Steve Tyler 2010-02-26 00:41:48 UTC 
Description of problem:
After completing a custom disk layout, I receiving an alert displaying a python backtrace. It is attached.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[stephent@walnut fedora]$ ls -l F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephent stephent 875560960 2010-02-25 09:28 F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
[stephent@walnut fedora]$ sha256sum F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
7623e48b2224e79c62ffade96a825942dba43a46b2c16c9a0c2acfa5b7cbccda  F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
[stephent@walnut fedora]$ ls -l Fedora-13-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephent stephent 246415360 2010-02-24 15:19 Fedora-13-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso
[stephent@walnut fedora]$ sha5sum Fedora-13-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso

How reproducible:
Only tried once ...

Steps to Reproduce:
This is what I did:
1. sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdc1
(/dev/sdc is an 8GB Lexar USB Flash Drive)
2. Boot the live image from the USB stick and click install ...
3. Choose custom disk layout.
4. I deleted two partitions, recreated two partitions with different sizes, configured one as "/boot" and one as "/", both to be formatted. 
  
Actual results:
Received an error message with a python backtrace.
Neither partition was deleted, but, IIRC, one could not be mounted by gnome-disk-utility. Since I needed a place to put the python dump, I used gnome-disk-utility to format it.

Expected results:
Partitions are created and formatted as specified.

Additional info:

I was trying to delete sdb3 and sdb5 and then recreate them with sdb3 smaller (100 MB for "/boot") and allocate the rest of the space to sdb5 for "/" (Bug 568460 prevented me from choosing a pre-existing logical volume).

[stephent@walnut ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xff3d5e55

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              14        4418    35383162+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sdb3   *        4419        4483      522112+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb4            4484        4865     3068415    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5            4484        4865     3068383+  83  Linux

[stephent@walnut ~]$ blkid 
/dev/sda1: UUID="80c8c1fd-cb09-41c9-8404-b8ca010a75bc" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="walnut_boot" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="kT8fYU-UN7Z-If4K-cILr-U2Ak-ebgf-GxBOnv" TYPE="LVM2_member" 
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="cedar_boot" UUID="792d821d-ec1c-44ca-8c90-e98ab92d9650" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sdb2: UUID="820rVv-y7zN-gQUx-E8rV-f2ei-Silh-JEQ5kw" TYPE="LVM2_member" 
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="fir_boot" UUID="910e2c62-5d4e-4601-9b80-0c273941c627" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb5: UUID="163e92f5-96d7-4525-a69c-20091e4a0495" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="linux_spare" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="05fe594a-bd90-44ba-8dbc-2e6c1de27094" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="pecan_root" 
/dev/sda6: UUID="a377bcbc-0c4d-4f9e-b804-15c14d639ab3" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="pecan_home" 
/dev/sda7: UUID="39d61b09-9391-4dbd-ab77-e91ebf7cc8d2" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/mapper/vg_pluto-lv_cedar_root: LABEL="cedar_root" UUID="1bad76a1-2f91-4685-a9f7-de5a82507b79" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/mapper/vg_pluto-lv_cedar_home: LABEL="cedar_home" UUID="50e142f5-dc2b-471e-8540-5b21f771e5a5" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/mapper/vg_pluto-lv_fir_root: LABEL="fir_root" UUID="829b6aa2-4455-4dd8-9eaf-53427c79b34b" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/mapper/vg_walnut-lv_walnut_root: LABEL="walnut_root" UUID="578fc9d0-1660-473e-985a-cbe13213edf8" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/mapper/vg_walnut-lv_walnut_home: LABEL="walnut_home" UUID="84d35996-47ad-4e02-be0d-dd7e815a9a34" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/mapper/vg_walnut-lv_walnut_swap: UUID="5354a19f-85f7-4b40-b397-65a47097482d" TYPE="swap"
Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2010-02-26 00:45:53 UTC 
Created attachment 396437 [details]
error dump

This was supposed to have been attached with report.
Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2010-02-26 01:41:36 UTC 
Please attach /tmp/syslog to this bug report as well.  Thanks.
Comment 3 Steve Tyler 2010-02-26 04:46:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Please attach /tmp/syslog to this bug report as well.  Thanks.    

Wasn't what I already uploaded enough?
You anaconda people should try actually designing your failure reports ...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=396358
Attached by jlaska to Bug 568460 - Anaconda doesn't recognize pre-existing logical volumes ...

James is much more polite than I am ...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT
Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2010-02-26 15:42:19 UTC 
> Wasn't what I already uploaded enough?
> You anaconda people should try actually designing your failure reports ...

No, there was no syslog in your original report.  And there's no reason to be a jerk about it.

> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ABRT    

I wasn't aware of that, thanks.
Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2010-02-26 15:45:02 UTC 
I'm going to dupe this to 568460, since you're seeing the weird thing where partitions are being detected as disklabels.  Note from your traceback:

self: DiskLabel instance (0xad0512c) --
  type = disklabel  name = partition table (MSDOS)  status = False

This matches what's happening in the screenshot from that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 568460 ***
Comment 6 David Lehman 2010-02-26 18:50:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Please attach /tmp/syslog to this bug report as well.  Thanks.    
> 
> Wasn't what I already uploaded enough?
> You anaconda people should try actually designing your failure reports ...

Perhaps you should remember that you're using pre-alpha software.

> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=396358
> Attached by jlaska to Bug 568460 - Anaconda doesn't recognize pre-existing
> logical volumes ...
> 
> James is much more polite than I am ...

And that's why we are all eager to help him out when he needs it.


Thanks for the report, though -- you did help us identify a bug in the reporting mechanism.
Comment 7 Steve Tyler 2010-02-26 20:27:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
...
> Perhaps you should remember that you're using pre-alpha software.

Thanks for reminding me of that.

...
> > James is much more polite than I am ...
> And that's why we are all eager to help him out when he needs it.

OK.

> Thanks for the report, though -- you did help us identify a bug in the
> reporting mechanism.    

Thanks for your feedback! It took me a while to realize that James had identified the problem with the exception report ...
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