Cant create partitions during anaconda

[Fxenon]

Hello

For some reason during the installation (Fedora 16) when i try to create partitions it crashes with an error which is unable to create partition because device is busy

going to try fedora 15 now and upgrade it since i can't create the partition scheme with Fedora 16

[smr54]

By any chance, were you using the live CD? I think (but am really not sure) that it might need you to have a specific partitioning scheme.

Also, I have seen in the past, with various distributions, not just Fedora, where, for some reason, during installation, it would have trouble with partitioning. However, if I first ran fdisk, perhaps from a live CD, then made the install, using the partitions I'd made, it would be fine.

However, that hasn't happened to me in a very long time, that I can remember, and definitely not with F16--I'm just throwing it out there as a possibility if you're stuck and no one has a better answer.

[Fxenon]

i tried both DVD iso and the KDE Live CD of Fedora 16 also Fedora 15 & 14 KDE Live CD neither works at creating partition scheme

altough Fedora 12 DVD i was able to create the partitions which is same as other versions (500 mb ext4 /boot, 40g LVM with 4GB swap and rest for ext4 /)

maybe some bug ? thats wierd because i was able to install fedora 16 and 14 on my laptop before with 20 GB free space then meanwhile i have removed all linux partition


btw always same error:

anaconda 14.22 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 213, in commit
return self.__disk.commit()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/parted/decorators.py", line 31, in localeC
ret = fn(*args, **kwds)
File "<string>", line 2, in commit
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/formats/disklabel.py", line 248, in commit
self.partedDisk.commit()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 1390, in destroy
self.disk.originalFormat.commit()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 219, in execute
self.device.destroy()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 700, in processActions
action.execute(intf=self.intf)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 313, in doIt
self.devicetree.processActions()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packages.py", line 110, in turnOnFilesystems
anaconda.storage.doIt()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 212, in moveStep
rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 131, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 1278, in setScreen
self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/gui.py", line 1191, in nextClicked
self.setScreen ()
IOException: Failed to add partition 5 (Device or resource busy)