Fedora 11 fail because of Anaconda :(

[James Laska]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 11:20 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:58 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > >> >> I don't have any warm fuzzies about how good F11 is going to be;
> > >> >> I'm afraid that anaconda's instability has blocked a lot of the
> > >> >> testing we'd normally get.
> > >> >
> > >> > Fair point.  I'm optimistic with the number of Test Days and the
> > >> > increasing use of live images for testing.  That said, there is a
> > >> > significant hurdle to overcome for calming down the installer.
> > >>
> > >> I agree the test days have helped but its concerning that I still
> > >> can't do an install with custom partitions with the preview release.
> > >> And there doesn't seem to be a lot of traction on the bug to fix it
> > >> before release.
> > >
> > > I agree Peter.  From my perspective things have been improving with
> > > anaconda.  However, the exposure continues to be the previous disk
> > > layout especially those involving dmraid.
> > >
> > > When filing a bug, please be as specific as possible when outlining the
> > > "steps to reproduce."  Order is very important for the custom disk
> > > partitioning.  If a traceback occurs, the resulting traceback file
> > > (/tmp/anacdump.txt) and any screenshots are tremendously helpful.
> > >
> > > In the case of bug#492154, it appears that the previous OSX disk layout
> > > may be the culprit.  I'm reaching out to the anaconda-devel folks for
> > > advice on further pinpointing this issue.  I'll hopefully follow-up with
> > > more information.
> > 
> > Interesting, if that was caused by OSX disk layouts maybe some of the
> > bugs that were marked as dupes of it should be reopened. Or at least
> > the contents of the various bug reports re-examined for information.
> > The original bug I filed was marked as a dupe of that and I've since
> > put updates on that ticket but haven't been told that its not relevant
> > or to open a new bug.
> 
> Let's see what comes out of initial triage efforts for this bug.  Stay
> tuned ...

Peter and Tom, and others who've experienced bug#492154 (Partition map
has no partition map entry).  

Chris Lumens feels confident in a fix but would like some feedback.  If
you have some time, please download the latest rawhide boot.iso [1] and
attempt to reproduce the bug.  You can pass along your findings directly
in the bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492154,
or on the list here.

Thanks,
James

[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Direct_Rawhide_install


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