problems with unpartitioned harddrives and automatic partitioning

[Eugeny Zadevalov]

Hello,

Here is what it's on the console when drives are unpartitioned:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 938, in ?
instClass.setInstallData(anaconda)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 831, in setInstallData
self.ksparser.readKickstart(self.file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pykickstart/parser.py", line 
1151, in readKickstart
self.handleCommand(lineno, args)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 719, in handleCommand
self.handler.handlers[cmd](cmdArgs)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 440, in doPartition
if not hds.has_key(pd.disk) and hds.has_key('mapper/'+pd.disk):
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
install exited abnormally [1/1]

sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
...
...

Does anyone from the anaconda development team actually read this list?

Eugeny Zadevalov wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've been trying to setup automatic partitioning with Kickstart.
> Everything is okay until I try to run my Kickstart setup on machine with 
> unpartitioned drives (like if partition table is broken or filled with 
> zeros).
> 
> I'm experiencing same issue with both Centos4.6 and Centos5.1.
> 
> My goal is to get raid1 setup automatically through kickstart. Below is 
> cut from ks.cfg:
> ===
> zerombr
> clearpart --initlabel --all
> part raid.01 --size=2048 --onbiosdisk=80 --asprimary
> part raid.02 --size=8192 --onbiosdisk=80 --asprimary --grow
> part raid.03 --size=2048 --onbiosdisk=81 --asprimary
> part raid.04 --size=8192 --onbiosdisk=81 --asprimary --grow
> raid /    --level=RAID1 --device=md0 --fstype=ext3 raid.02 raid.04
> raid swap --level=RAID1 --device=md1 --fstype=swap raid.01 raid.03
> ===
> 
> If I remove this part and run kickstarting machine over Kickstart with 
> manual partitioning I get warning about drives needs to be initialized. 
> That's normal I guess. But with my automatic partitioning I've 
> "clearpart --initlabel --all" and that supposed to be initializing 
> any/all unpartitioned drives but that's not happening. Kickstart just 
> hangs giving bunch of errors.
> 
> If I just go ahead and do something like:
> fdisk /dev/hda
> w
> ENTER
> fdisk /dev/hdc
> w
> ENTER
> And then try again that automatic partitioning scheme it works like 
> expected.
> 
> I've searched over the mailling list archive but wasn't able to find 
> anything.
> 
> For me it looks like a bug with "--initlabel" option.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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