I was testing the "Gentoo Linux Installer" (Graphical). I made it all the way through the wizard and the installer was starting to partition the USB drive. The error message was: Exception received: Error: Too many primary partitions. Please submit a bug report (after searching to make sure it's not a known issue and verifying you didn't do something stupid) with the contents of /var/log/install.log and /tmp/installprofile.xml and the version of the installer you used The partitioning scheme I was using: sda1 = 100M /boot sda2 = 512M swap sda3 = 3G+ / The install is being done on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop (docked). I marked this bug critical only because it crashed out of the installer and did not give me the option to change the partitioning scheme. gentoo@livecd ~ $ emerge --info *** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems *** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xml2 xmms xsl xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 81305 [details] installer.log.failed
Created attachment 81306 [details] installprofile.xml
Was this using the version of the installer that came on the LiveCD?
I tried it again with the command line installer using the same installprofile.xml. I recieved a similar error when I did the "actual" install. If I ran it in the simulator mode, everything was fine.
Both frontends use the same backend to perform the install. Simulation mode doesn't actually do anything, so it's understandable that it would "work" there.
I was able to manually partion the drive and run through the command line installer using the attached installprofile.xml (at least so far, i've got past the privious failure point). Here is the output from fdisk: gentoo@livecd ~ $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4095 MB, 4095737856 bytes 126 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders Units = cylinders of 7812 * 512 = 3999744 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 26 101525 83 Linux /dev/sda2 27 160 523404 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 161 1024 3374784 83 Linux
(In reply to comment #3) > Was this using the version of the installer that came on the LiveCD? Yes.
It appears this happened because my code that deleted the partitions had a slight hiccup. This is fixed in CVS.
(In reply to comment #8) > It appears this happened because my code that deleted the partitions had a > slight hiccup. This is fixed in CVS. Is there anyway to test it? I'm not sure how to update the cd with the new version in cvs.
Also, I forgot to mention that I had also tried to do a layout like this, which also failed: sda1 = 100M (primary) sda2 = 3G+ (extended) sda5 = 512M (logical) sda6 = 3G+ (logical) Hopefully, it is the same issue.
Open a terminal and do '/opt/installer/misc/updategtkfe' on the LiveCD. This will grab the latest CVS snapshot and run the GTK frontend.
Moving to Release Media/Installer.
