Nasty Bug (plus fix)

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 19:11 -0600, Bob Gill wrote:
> Sorry if this one has been beaten to death.  After installing FC4, the
> kernel would tank (Oops early on the first boot after the last install
> CD was out).  

What exactly is the error that you see?

I am getting:
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No volume groups found.
Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
Error: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5 ! (pid 448)



Thanks,
Ernest

> The problem is the swap line in /etc/fstab was seriously
> mangled.  Initially it said:
> LABEL=/tmp (then a bunch of garbage characters) swap swap defaults 0 0
> Which looks like something is mangled with what should be
> in /boot/grub/grub.conf.  
> After setting the swap file to where I set it running disk druid (in my
> case the line looked like:
> /dev/hda2               /tmp                    swap    defaults
> 0 0
> ....
> Things worked fine.  It might already be in bugzilla, but I post partly
> for those people who got hammered by this bug and are looking for a
> quick fix (and haven't peeked at bugzilla or anywhere else).
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
>