Bug 12012

Summary:	Upon upgrade, free space on partition for separate /boot should be checked...
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	anaselli, ennael1, marja11, stormi-mageia, thierry.vignaud, tomwitmann099, yvesbrungard
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	IN_ERRATA5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	11979, 15637

Description Morgan Leijström 2013-12-16 13:52:22 CET

... and if less than 40MB(?) stop and tell user to abort and make more free space in /boot before attempting upgrade.  (and/or possibly offer to delete some not needed files)


Description of problem:
When /boot is on a separate partition (i.e for encrypted system)
it may be small and been pretty filled up by automatic kernel updates.

Then when an ignorant user ( no names... doh!) ) upgrades his system without checking there is enough space it may fail in last step when running mkinitrd.

WORKAORUND: If the user knows, he can switch to vt2 where there is a working prompt, manually clean up space, then issue the exact same command the installer say failed, switch back to installer, press next and it finished, making this user smile :)

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Dick Gevers 2013-12-16 22:15:42 CET

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11966 describes similar problems

CC: (none) => dvgevers

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-12-22 15:35:21 CET

(iirc we have some note in the errata/release page)

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Blocks: (none) => 11979

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2014-02-04 15:34:37 CET

The problem can occur also when installing regular kernel updates, not only when upgrading the system, can't it?

CC: (none) => stormi

Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2014-02-04 18:21:20 CET

Yes exactly, and there may be quite many during mgaX lifetime.

Problem is worst for regular use:
During install/system upgrade mgaX to mga(X+1) the user is thinking more about dis space, and he probably is knowing.  Then say maybe he installs a system for friend/grandma/employees who i less sawy.

After half a year and four kernel updates suddenlu the system fail to boot, and the user panicks and do not realise he can easily select a working kernel - instead he yells/cries at the installer guy or talk bad about mandriva.

Comment 5 Anne Nicolas 2015-02-05 21:43:03 CET

We will deal with errata notes for Mageia 5 and add this to Mageia 6 specifications for installer

CC: (none) => ennael1

Angelo Naselli 2015-02-05 21:46:10 CET

CC: (none) => anaselli

Marja Van Waes 2015-04-06 22:58:58 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 15637

Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-21 12:46:31 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => FOR_ERRATA

Comment 6 papoteur 2015-05-31 18:27:54 CEST

Added in errata:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Errata#Check_free_space_on_.2Fboot

Whiteboard: FOR_ERRATA => IN_ERRATA
CC: (none) => yves.brungard_mageia

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-16 15:41:35 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2017-03-29 07:21:45 CEST

(In reply to Anne Nicolas from comment #5)
> We will deal with errata notes for Mageia 5 and add this to Mageia 6
> specifications for installer

Did anything change in installer, or does this need to be added to the Mageia6 errata, too?

Whiteboard: IN_ERRATA => (none)
Keywords: (none) => IN_ERRATA5
CC: (none) => marja11

Dick Gevers 2019-10-12 19:12:46 CEST

CC: dvgevers => (none)

Robin Coleman 2020-05-26 06:04:01 CEST

CC: (none) => tomwitmann099