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# sk112204 - Gaia installation on Open Server/ESX fails with "IndexError: list index out of range" error

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk112204 |
| Date Created | 2016-07-04 |
| Last Modified | 2019-02-05 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway, Security Management Server |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20, R82.10, R82, R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * After starting installation of Gaia on Open Server/VMWare ESX, the following messages appears:

  ```
  
  Traceback (most recent call first): 
  File "usr/lib/anaconda/autopart.py", 
  line 1265, in doautoPartition 
  partitions .autoClearPartDrivers = 
  [disk[0]] # only first HD used. for now.... 
  
  File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", 
  line216, in moveStep 
  rc = stepFunc(self .anaconda) 
  File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", 
  line 139, in gotoNext 
  self .moveStep() 
  File "usr/lib/anaconda/text.py" line 604, in run 
  
  IndexError: list index out of range 
  ```

* Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda3 - Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda3 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.

## Cause

* Scenario 1  
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  * There is a problems with partition scheme which is due to RAID configuration on the open server.

  * Scenario 2  
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  * HDD size is larger than 2TB.

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