Hi Steve,
Thank you for all the information. It is always better to have too much than
not enough. Nothing jumps out at me for being wrong, so I'll ask some more
questions.
When you partition the disk during the install, how are you partitioning it?
Are you doing it manually? Are you using the automatic partitioning?
Are you removing all the partitions and making new ones? Are you using the
existing partitions?
Which partitions are you formating, which are you leaving along?
Troy
Steve White wrote:
Hi,
The SL 5.1 anaconda just crashed on me three times, fortunately before it
formatted the partitions.
After I had finished setting up the partitions and networking and packages,
after it had verified the consistency of the packages, I came to a window
that prompted me if I wanted to start the installation. I clicked "Next"
and got an error dialog:
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Error informing the kernel about modifications to
partition/dev/sda5--Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about
any changes you made to /dev/sda5 until you reboot--so you shouldn't mount it
or use it in any way before rebooting.
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It prompted me to "ignore" or "cancel". I tried it each way, with the same
result: an exception window, and no choice but to re-boot.
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Exception Occurred
...
/tmp/treedir/12334/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py line 892, in
savePartition disk.commit()
" " /packages.py, line 147, in turnOnFilesystems
anaconda.id.diskset.savePartitions()
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The machine is a 2411 MHz x86_64 dual-core (family 15 model37) with 8GB RAM.
It has a Fiber Channel connection (I tried the install both
connected and unconnected).
It also has an IPMI card.
The system hard disk is nothing special (maybe a little over-partitioned)
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$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 2063536 465460 1493252 24% /
/dev/sda1 101105 30332 65552 32% /boot
none 4081032 0 4081032 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 10325780 497152 9304108 6% /opt
/dev/sda7 8262068 131260 7711112 2% /tmp
/dev/sda5 10325780 7714352 2086908 79% /usr
/dev/sda8 5162828 680644 4219924 14% /var
/dev/sda9 87033536 6825444 79323876 8% /work1
/dev/sda10 87025504 739156 85402212 1% /work2
/dev/sda11 87033536 89840 86059480 1% /work3
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$ /sbin/fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104422 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 1319 10490445 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 1320 1580 2096482+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1581 38913 299877322+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1581 2886 10490444+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 2887 4192 10490444+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 4193 5237 8393962 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 5238 5890 5245222 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 5891 16898 88421728+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 16899 27905 88413696 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 27906 38913 88421728+ 83 Linux
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$ ipmitool -I open mc info
Device ID : 32
Device Revision : 0
Firmware Revision : 0.20
IPMI Version : 2.0
Manufacturer ID : 6653
Manufacturer Name : Tyan Computer Corporation
Product ID : 2892 (0x0b4c)
Device Available : yes
Provides Device SDRs : no
Additional Device Support :
Sensor Device
SDR Repository Device
SEL Device
FRU Inventory Device
IPMB Event Receiver
IPMB Event Generator
Bridge
Aux Firmware Rev Info :
0x00
0x00
0x00
0x00
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$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address
Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address
Map
00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 10)
18:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 13)
18:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
18:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 13)
18:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
19:03.0 Fibre Channel: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic FC949X Fibre Channel Adapter
(rev 01)
1a:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit
Ethernet (rev 10)
1a:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit
Ethernet (rev 10)
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