Troy,
Are we approaching a resolution of this problem?
I would very much like to upgrade SL on these machines.
Thanks!
On 19.02.08, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >================================================================
> > 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.
> >================================================================
> >
> >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.
> >
> >================================================================
> >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()
> >================================================================
> >
> >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)
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
> >$ 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
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
> >$ /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
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >$ 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
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >$ /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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