On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 05:35 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:05 +0800, Feizhou wrote:
> > Has anybody encountered this problem?
> >
> > I have a box that has FC2 installed. I wanted to trash the FC2
> > installation and install CentOS 4.
> >
> > I have a pxeboot/dhcp/kickstart environment and so I tried automatic
> > disk partitioning (clear all partitions and then create new ones),
> > manual disk partitioning but everything else is automated and finally,
> > zero automation, just a manual installation through VNC.
> >
> > Once I reach a part that touchs disk, the process will stop and end up with:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line
> > 789, in nextClicked
> > self.dispatch.gotoNext()
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
> > line 171, in gotoNext
> > self.moveStep()
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
> > line 239, in moveStep
> > rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py",
> > line 54, in partitionObjectsInitialize
> > partitions.setFromDisk(diskset)
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py",
> > line 140, in setFromDisk
> > diskset.startAllRaid()
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py",
> > line 542, in startAllRaid
> > DiskSet.mdList.extend(raid.startAllRaid(driveList))
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/raid.py", line
> > 106, in startAllRaid
> > mdList = scanForRaid(driveList)
> > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/raid.py", line
> > 56, in scanForRaid
> > (major, minor, raidSet, level, nrDisks, totalDisks, mdMinor) =\
> > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 97, in raidsb
> > return raidsbFromDevice("/tmp/md")
> > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 103, in raidsbFromDevice
> > rc = _isys.getraidsb(fd)
> > SystemError: (5, 'Input/output error')
>
> I had a similar problem with a ppc install on RHEL. I think (but I am
> not 100% positive) that it is a LVM1 / LVM2 compatibility issue.
>
> What I had to do was use fdisk and wipe the partitions and then I
> recreated them in anaconda using the raid and lvm tools in anaconda.
>
> I have never actually had that problem on CentOS-4, but it is the same
> code, so I'm sure it happens in C4 too.
> _______________________________________________
BTW ... It might also be either this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149220
or this
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144827
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