https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463768 Summary: Opensuse 11.1 GMC installation failed during formatting the partitions Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: PowerPC-64 OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bugproxy@us.ibm.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Third Party Developer/Partner Partner ID: LTC 50555 =Comment: #0================================================= Pavan Naregundi - Screenshot of Call Trace During the installation of opensuse 11.1 GMC, YaST exited producing a call trace. This is in the phase of formatting the partitions. Machine: P510 CPU: Power 5 Please see the attachments for screenshot of Call Trace and YaST log and custom partition table. However I didn't got this error in all the installations of 11.1 GMC. =Comment: #1================================================= Pavan Naregundi - Screenshot of Call Trace Continued.. =Comment: #2================================================= Pavan Naregundi - Screenshot of Partition table =Comment: #3================================================= Pavan Naregundi - Screenshot of Partition table Continued.. =Comment: #4================================================= Pavan Naregundi - /var/log/YaST2 log details =Comment: #5================================================= Pavan Naregundi - file /var/log/messages Tried creating some partitions after booting to installed system, got the same error again in /var/log/messages. However the partitions where created. linux-zgg0:~ # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 499072 kB MemFree: 214144 kB Buffers: 96896 kB Cached: 98880 kB SwapCached: 23552 kB Active: 132608 kB Inactive: 94848 kB SwapTotal: 3140544 kB SwapFree: 3101888 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 19840 kB Mapped: 15744 kB Slab: 30144 kB SReclaimable: 7936 kB SUnreclaim: 22208 kB PageTables: 7104 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 3390080 kB Committed_AS: 190528 kB VmallocTotal: 8589934592 kB VmallocUsed: 10688 kB VmallocChunk: 8589923776 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 16384 kB linux-zgg0:~ # =Comment: #7================================================= Pavan Naregundi - (In reply to comment #6)

In comment#5, you have mentioned that creating the partitions were successful. but the installation was not completed, right?

In description of the bug, I have mentioned that installer exited with a call trace. Yes, when I do a custom partitioning and try to install installer produced the error. However installation with default partition succeed. Now, in comment #5, I have tried partitioning in installed system and partitioning succeeded producing a call trace. After the partition output of fdisk -l: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 57.9 GB, 57982058496 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 55296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0xef780a00 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1 390 41 PPC PReP Boot Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 40 738 714892+ 83 Linux Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 738 21502 21262027+ 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda4 21502 55295 34604010 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5 21502 24569 3140676 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 24569 39928 15727603+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda7 39928 45042 5237158+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 45042 50157 5237158+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 50157 55295 5261256 83 Linux Disk /dev/dm-0: 5368 MB, 5368709120 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 652 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 5368 MB, 5368709120 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 652 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-2: 5364 MB, 5364514816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 652 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-3: 5362 MB, 5362321920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 651 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-4: 5362 MB, 5362321920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 651 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table =Comment: #8================================================= Cijurajan Kollanoor <> - The dm-x block devices are device mapper devices. Something is likely creating them to map certain partitions (if you have EVMS) or to represent the block devices for any logic volumes for LVM. fdisk -l looks through all the block devices listed in /proc/partitions when you use -l alone. I think, we should be able to install the system after formatting the partitions. =Comment: #11================================================= Pavan Naregundi - /var/log/messages of another machine with similar behaviour I could observe many call traces of similar kind in attached /var/log/messages. This is from a power 6 machine installed with opensuse 11.1-GMC. =Comment: #12================================================= Pavan Naregundi - I could reproduce the error in opensuse 11.1 final release. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.