UEFI install on MBR partition scheme, was: Failed attempt to fpaste UEFI failure data

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Sat Dec 14 22:25:39 UTC 2013


On Dec 14, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX <caf at omen.com> wrote:

> 
> On 12/14/2013 12:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 12:48 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>>> On 12/14/2013 09:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 04:46 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>>>>> While in RC1.1 anaconda booted with UEFI I was able
>>>>> to ftp the files in /tmp to my server.  I then rebooted
>>>>> my office machine to RC1.1 that had been installed
>>>>> without UEFI.  I tried fpaste again on these files and
>>>>> fpaste failed again:
>>>>> 
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      149K Dec 14 04:32 syslog
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       24K Dec 14 04:32 storage.state
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      203K Dec 14 04:32 storage.log
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       112 Dec 14 04:32 sensitive-info.log
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       38K Dec 14 04:32 program.log
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      185K Dec 14 04:32 packaging.log
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen      1.8K Dec 14 04:32 ifcfg.log
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       20K Dec 14 04:32 anaconda.log
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       351 Dec 14 04:32 anaconda-yum.conf
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 caf       omen       34K Dec 14 04:32 X.log
>>>>> [caf at omen h]$ cat foo
>>>>> [root at omen3 ~]# fpaste /o/tmp/h/*
>>>>> WARNING: your paste size (812.2KiB) is very large and may be rejected by
>>>>> the server. A pastebin is NOT a file hosting service!
>>>>> Uploading (812.2KiB)...
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>     File "/bin/fpaste", line 447, in <module>
>>>>>       main()
>>>>>     File "/bin/fpaste", line 414, in main
>>>>>       [url, short_url] = paste(text, options)
>>>>>     File "/bin/fpaste", line 127, in paste
>>>>>       response = json.loads(f.read())
>>>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
>>>>>       return _default_decoder.decode(s)
>>>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
>>>>>       obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
>>>>>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 383, in raw_decode
>>>>>       raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
>>>>> ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
>>>>> 
>>>>> It does appear fpaste is broken.
>>>> Nope. It told you what was going on right at the top:
>>>> 
>>>> "WARNING: your paste size (812.2KiB) is very large and may be rejected
>>>> by the server. A pastebin is NOT a file hosting service!"
>>>> 
>>>> It only takes up to 500KiB at a time. If you have somewhere to host the
>>>> files from, there's no need to fpaste, just put them there for us to
>>>> look at; otherwise, fpaste them one at a time.
>>> I fpasted them one at a time just now.
>> Then can you give us the URLs it gave you? We can't possibly find the
>> stuff if you don't give us the URL...
> Session output is attached.

program.log failed to upload

From anaconda.log

	• 04:30:44,507 DEBUG anaconda: Need disklabel: gpt have: msdos


	• 04:31:01,514 DEBUG anaconda: info bar clicked: failed to find a suitable stage1 device ((<SpokeWindow object at 0x7f1f7ecd1d20 (AnacondaSpokeWindow at 0x37d9da0)>,))

From storage.log

	•   format = existing msdos disklabel


I'm about to look through the blivet code now but does anyone know off hand if anaconda supports UEFI installs to MBR partition schemes? I think not, but I don't know for sure.


Chris Murphy


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