Bug encountered while installing RHEL 6.4
While installing the RHEL 6.4 in our server there is showing one error : "An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug."
And the details of the bug is as follows :
" anaconda 13.21.195 exception report
Traceback (Most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/booty/x86.py", line 276, in writeGrubConf "
The detailed error message has been attached.
After this error message the installer exits abnormally. And if we press the debug button then the screen shows :
" Entering debugger...
/usr/lib/anaconda/booty/x86.py(276)writeGrubConf()
-> f.write('# root %s\n' % self.grubbypartitionName(bootDevs[0]))
"
The partitions that we used is as follows :
/ : 8 GB
/home : 8 GB
/boot : 500 MB
swap : 16 GB
/opt : 14 GB
/usr : 8 GB
/var : 5 Gb
Can you please suggest what needs to be done to avoid this bug and complete the installation.
Responses
Hi Rahul,
Are you configuring the /boot mount point as it's own partition? eg. /dev/sda1 or are you attempting to configure it on a mirror or in LVM?
Although I believe grub now supports boot on LVM (not something i've tried personally), I suspect the installer may be breaking because of this configuration.
The RHEL 5 Deployment Guide explicitly advised against /boot on LVM but it appears this advisory has been removed in the RHEL 6 guide.
I would attempt to create /boot on a partition eg. /dev/sda1 and then create your PV on /dev/sda2 for everything else, unless there is a specific reason you need /boot on LVM?
Apologies if that's not helpful.
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