On 2013-07-11 22:07 (GMT-0600) Chris Murphy composed:
When you click + a prior selection is dropped, and a new mount point is
created from free space based on the parameters: mount point (/boot, /,
swap, etc) and size. So whatever you selected before clicking + isn't
relevant.
So on first arriving on the
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fedora/anacondaF19manpart01.png screen, what needs
doing in what order to not see the red failed to add device message appear?
Do I ever need to click the "+" button if the only partition to configure is
/? Why is it the "configure selected mount point" button is always grayed
out, including right after having hit plus button and filled out the mini
window with mount point and "desired size"?
I recall an unreproducible logic bug regarding size, where I definitely
had enough free space like in your screen shot, yet anaconda would fail to
add new device with the reason that there wasn't enough free space. And
the only way I found out of this was to restart anaconda.
Did I say I hate newUI? I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT. I've done hundreds,
maybe thousands, of Linux distro installations sprawled over more than a
decade. None have been anywhere near as difficult as F18 or F19.
After I read your reply I remembered this lack of space problem had happened
some time before F19 got to RC1, and that formatting the target before
starting Anaconda seemed to be a workaround. So far tonight that isn't working.
Ever since I started this thread several hours ago, except for about 30
minutes of break time, I've been thwarted from getting an installation
started in too many ways to remember. Working backwards, I'm now making less
progress trying than earlier, repeatedly stopped by
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974467 and facilitating me
forgetting whatever it was I wanted to try differently next.
Navigating through manual partitioning (which I don't need, as all I need to
do is to set the / mount point) requires unintuitive procedural logic. Input
fields filled in or buttons clicked out of secret order are treated as though
left blank or unclicked. When I do manage to get through it, I'm always
stopped by an Anaconda claiming failed to add device, lack of available
space, primary partition required (on $SUBJECT attempts), or others I just
can't remember after too
many tries to count.
Trying to exit and start over takes what seems like forever each time.
Anaconda's GUI closes down soon enough, but then nothing happens for much too
long waiting on NM to time out doing some useless thing it should have no
need to do to effect a shutdown and reboot that I would have used the reset
button for if the machine had one. Mind you these are all started with
complete network configuration on cmdline, so there should be nothing network
related to "manage" during the Anaconda installation or abort processes.
Also, all this is going on trying to read text that is about 1/4 legible
size, smaller still than on a suitably configured desktop, and gray instead
of black.
Is there a Rawhide/Anaconda kernel/initrd/squashfs.img installation set
somewhere that I can try instead of F19's?
http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/rawhide/ as now rarely seems
to have one, same as
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/.
Logs from last failed attempt are at http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/F/
Telling excerpts from anaconda.log:
06:25:38,953 DEBUG anaconda: disk free: 59.06 GB fs free: 348.67 GB sw
needs: 766.56 MB auto swap: 3.98 GB
06:25:45,481 INFO anaconda: spoke is ready:
<pyanaconda.ui.gui.spokes.storage.StorageSpoke object at 0x7ff4e23dead0>
06:26:33,311 DEBUG anaconda: requested size = 4.8 GB ; available space =
59.06 GB
06:26:33,444 ERR anaconda: factoryDevice failed: not enough free space on disks
06:32:32,721 DEBUG anaconda: info bar clicked: not enough free space on disks
((<SpokeWindow object at 0x7ff4e22dfa50 (AnacondaSpokeWindow at 0x388e620)>,))
Whether or what bug to find or file to attach them to is up for suggestions.
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