Bugzilla Bug 160622: Installer does not upgrade from previous versions when there is more than one unlabled swap partition
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160622
If only google searching for the error message had shown me the light... Hopefully if I capture some useful information here on fedora-list, the archives will match searches, and future users won't be left in the dark.
Steve
On 3/7/07, Steve Lacy <slacy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This issue was caused by having multiple, unlabeled swap partitions, which anaconda then improperly identified as all having the same "label".
The fix was to run "swapoff -a" to turn off all swap, then, for each swap partition, run "mkswap /dev/XXX -L swap_XXX" where "XXX" is the name of the swap device.
After doing this, the anaconda upgrader worked just fine, and I'm writing this from my new FC6 system. Hooray!
I'll be filing a bug against anaconda about this issue.
SteveOn 3/5/07, Steve Lacy <smlacy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade from FC4 to FC6 before this DST bug hits...
I boot the FC6 installer, get to anaconda where I can select the upgrade, and I get a dialog box that says:
"Multiple devices on your system are labeled k?;[]qu??lqBs,?|. Labels across devices must be unique for your system to function properly. Please fix this problem and restart the installation process."
The "[]" in that is actually a unicode box with the numbers 0,0,1,3 in it. Anyway, I certainly didn't manually label any of my filesystems with that string. Here's my /etc/fstab:
/dev/md0 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdb2 swap swap pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdc2 swap swap pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /media/usbdisk ext2 pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/md0 is labeled "md0" and /dev/sda1 is labeled "/boot", although those names aren't used in /etc/fstab.
I think the problem is that / is RAID5 and on /dev/md0, and if anaconda is going through all partitions in the system and running "e2label" on each of them, it'll see that /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdc3 return the same value: "md0", due to the RAID configuration. But, that doesn't jive with the wacky label printed in the dialog box (above). When it says "label" I assume its referring to the e2label, is that true? Is it possible to label a swap partition?
Any help on how to get around this would be greatly appreciated.
Steve
