| Summary: | Installing mageia 3: success depends on the SSD (or is it something else ?) | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Andrew Lord <andrewlord> |
| Component: | Installer | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED OLD | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | critical | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | thierry.vignaud |
| Version: | 3 | Keywords: | NEEDINFO |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | CVE: | ||
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Andrew Lord
2013-07-27 17:04:14 CEST
Summary:
Installing mageia 3: success depends on the SSD ? =>
Installing mageia 3: success depends on the SSD (or is it something else ?) hum we got some bugs also with "Unpack failed for filesystem" but even on hard drive CC:
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thierry.vignaud Hi Manuel, Just wondering about things in common with my setup. 1. Do you have Win 7 on the systems that you've found the bug on ? 2. I've noticed that the Partition Table printout by /fdisk/sda (see above) reveals a /dev/sda4 partition that is not listed when I visit MCC->Hardware->Hard Disk->sda. I don't know if this important or not or if it has changed from previous editions of Mageia. Could you show us the partition table for the drive that fails on a typical buggy Mageia 3 install attempt please ? https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340 I was thinking there was some other related but can't found them anymore :( @anyone: This bug is against installer of M3, but M3 and M4 installers will not be fixed. Please consider if this applies to M5B1+ (I cannot test because I have no ssd disk and no windows). If it does please set whiteboard to: 5beta1, version to: 5 and edit the summary. If it works okay in M5 please close. Thanks. Keywords:
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NEEDINFO Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago. http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia and reopen this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. -- The Mageia Bugsquad Status:
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Hi, I too have been having problems with installing Mageia 3 on my Lenovo W520 laptop. This machine has a Samsung 512 GB SSD and is dual boot (Windows 7 and, initially, Mandriva Powerpack 2011). Prior to my attempt to install Mageia 3 on this laptop, I took the precaution of buying a smaller SSD (128GB Samsung) to test the install, as I didn't want any chance of stuffing up my working (though outdated) Mandriva 2011 system. So I replaced the Samsung 512 with the Samsung 128 and began the install of M-3. Evertything went fine. Partitioned the drive with a small-ish windows partition at the start (in case needed in the future) followed by ext4 and swap partitions. The install of the basic KDE desktop went without a hitch and the system booted up correctly without problems. So I thought all would be fine when I swapped the 512 GB SSD back in. Partition table for the 512 GB SSD is as follows (fdisk /dev/sda) Disk /dev/sda: 512.1 GB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x441d09ee Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 4080509 2040223+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 4080510 188401296 92160393+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 969827985 1000213167 15192591+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 188410320 969827984 390708832+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 188410383 245730239 28659928+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 245730303 266197049 10233373+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 266197113 645074009 189438448+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 645074073 686023694 20474811 83 Linux /dev/sda9 686023758 706490504 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 706490568 726957314 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sda11 726957378 747424124 10233373+ 83 Linux /dev/sda12 747424188 969827984 111201898+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order sda5 is / sda7 is /home sda8 is /usr/local sda9 to sda12 $various I swapped the 512 GB SSD back in and put in the install disk (DVD) as before. Things proceeded well at first. I proceeded right through the custom partitioning section and began the install but after a short while, the system showed "Unpack failed for filesystem-2.1.9-20.mga3-x86-64", and the install stopped. I repeated the install attempt, but got the same result so, thinking that the disk may have been damaged / dodgy, I downloaded once again and attempted the install, with the same result. [NOTE: I later confirmed that the disks must have been fine, since I could use either one of them to reinstall on the smaller 128GB SSD]. So the only difference between a working install and a failed install, is the SSD used. Unfortunately, I've not yet found an acceptable solution to this inability to do a direct install of Mageia 3 on this 512GB SSD. While Mageia 2 will install directly on the 512GB SSD without difficulty, and while Mageia 3 *will* upgrade from Mageia 2 (using the same installation media prepared for the direct install attempt), as per the suggestion by Herman (see posting http://http://alt.os.linux.mageia.narkive.com/VRlAatp1/unable-to-install-mageia3), there are several bizarre bugs with the upgraded version, and which remain unsolved in the various forums I've visited. So I dearly want to do a fresh direct install of Mageia 3 once this bug is resolved. I note that there is now a fresh version of Mageia 3 that can be downloaded. Does anybody know if this new version addresses these instalation difficulties ? I'd welcome all and any comments on what might be causing the problem I've described, and any solution that would allow the "Unpack failed for filesystem-2.1.9-20.mga3-x86-64" error to be avoided. I note that Mike (see posting http://http://alt.os.linux.mageia.narkive.com/VRlAatp1/unable-to-install-mageia3) refers to hidden partions on Windows 7 dual boot systems may be causing problems; Windows 7 is indeed a difference between the 512 GB SSD and the test 128GB SSD. I'm hoping that by putting my experience out there, some one else may twig as to a solution to the problem.