Bug 14758

Summary:	system must be rebooted after creating partitions
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	cornel panceac <cpanceac>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	rverschelde, stephane_oss, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	5beta1
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description cornel panceac 2014-12-09 13:48:05 CET

Description of problem: 
installing mageia 5 onto an empty virtual disk.
after telling the installer to partition space automatically, it wants to reboot the virtual machine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
1/1

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start installer on empty target storage
2.create partitions automaticall
3.

Expected:
we go on with the installer

Actual results:
it asks to reboot

Additional info:
After reboot, you have to tell the installer what to do with the automatically created partitions.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Rémi Verschelde 2014-12-09 13:54:39 CET

CC: (none) => remi
Whiteboard: (none) => 5beta1

Rémi Verschelde 2014-12-09 13:54:52 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 1 Stephane 2015-02-22 10:55:02 CET

I noticed the same behavior with Mageia-5-beta3-x86_64-DVD on real Hardware and windows partition already on disk.

After creating Mageia partitions, installer asked to reboot. Next tentative, I choose partitions created added mount point and installation continue normally.

CC: (none) => stephane_oss

Comment 2 Mageia Robot 2015-03-20 21:40:13 CET

commit 639429951345886de94d497a3076e0e0966e4636
Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...>
Date:   Mon Feb 23 19:00:51 2015 +0100

    fix telling kernel to reread partition table
    
    use libparted in order to do so (mga#14758)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=639429951345886de94d497a3076e0e0966e4636

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-29 13:22:07 CEST

Closing

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED