CentOS - Jun 2008 - Centos 5.2 Install - lvcreate failed for ...

!st install of 5.2; system requires custom partitioning (Scalix mail 
server).

Boot and Swap are hard partitions, rest of drive is LVM.

In LVM, three ext3 partitions:  /, /home, /var/opt/scalix

lvcreate failed for the last (named Scalix_02).  It was the last of the 
three partitions and used up the remainder of the LVM space.

Now 'The Installer will now exit..." And all there is is a Reboot
button.

Any idea on what the real error is, how to find out more, what to try 
next?  It did take me a bit to walk through the packet selection.

Next I will try to build a more normal system  :)

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:
> !st install of 5.2; system requires custom partitioning (Scalix mail 
> server).
> 
> Boot and Swap are hard partitions, rest of drive is LVM.
> 
> In LVM, three ext3 partitions:  /, /home, /var/opt/scalix
> 
> lvcreate failed for the last (named Scalix_02).  It was the last of the 
> three partitions and used up the remainder of the LVM space.
> 
> Now 'The Installer will now exit..." And all there is is a Reboot
button.
> 
> Any idea on what the real error is, how to find out more, what to try 
> next?  It did take me a bit to walk through the packet selection.
> 
> Next I will try to build a more normal system  :)
----
switch to the appropriate virtual console...

<Control><Alt><F3> # I think, it might be
<Control><Alt><F4>

Craig

Thanks, but...

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> !st install of 5.2; system requires custom partitioning (Scalix mail 
>> server).
>>
>> Boot and Swap are hard partitions, rest of drive is LVM.
>>
>> In LVM, three ext3 partitions:  /, /home, /var/opt/scalix
>>
>> lvcreate failed for the last (named Scalix_02).  It was the last of the
>> three partitions and used up the remainder of the LVM space.
>>
>> Now 'The Installer will now exit..." And all there is is a
Reboot button.
>>
>> Any idea on what the real error is, how to find out more, what to try 
>> next?  It did take me a bit to walk through the packet selection.
>>
>> Next I will try to build a more normal system  :)
>>     
> ----
> switch to the appropriate virtual console...
>
> <Control><Alt><F3> # I think, it might be
>   
Shows the error:

createLogicalVolumes failed with lvcreate for Scalix_02
> <Control><Alt><F4>
>   
Some device-mapper messages.  Not imformative.

Hansj?rg Maurer wrote:
> Hi
>
> we have often seen this behaviour with lvm and RHEL5 too
> We try to use fixed sizes during installation and extend the lvm, when
> the system is running.
>
> I think, that the calculation of lvm size and PE size in the installer
> is not working well....
I redid it, and made sure that the partition was a multiple of 512Mb.  
This left 192Mb unused.

The partition was successfully created and the install is on the way.

Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:39:06 -0400:
> Any idea on what the real error is, how to find out more, what to try 
> next?  It did take me a bit to walk through the packet selection.
Anaconda doesn't have good error handling, so it likes to bomb out when 
doing complex custom partitioning. So, I tend to just install the basic 
setup and create any fancy partitions by hand after the install is done.

Kai

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