Bug 15408

Summary:	Summary placeholder for installer bugs with pointers to each individual bug raised
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Vladimir Zawalinski <vzawalin1>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	First page of classic installer

Description Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 06:22:13 CET

The installer for Version 5 (Cauldron) is the subject of numerous bugs - some scary, some relics from previous releases, some irritating and some cosmetic.

The intent of this report is to summarise these, one per comment and to give the number of each individual single-problem bug so raised. As it is not possible to change comments once posted, this report will grow progressively comment-by-comment until all issues have been raised.

This report deprecates bug 15242 which is now too cumbersome to work with either as a summary or as a tool for re-working installer for V6.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 07:13:11 CET

Summary: Summary placeholder for installer bugs found with pointers to each bug raised => Summary placeholder for installer bugs with pointers to each individual bug raised

Comment 1 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 07:34:27 CET

Created attachment 5976 [details]
First page of classic installer

PLease note large grey square and the language selector off centre. If intentional it looks bad. If a bug, should be fixed.

Comment 2 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 07:53:42 CET

The bug number raised for comment 1 is 15410

Comment 3 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 08:36:44 CET

Cosmetic:
The left-hand progress bar in classical installer GUI reads "Mageia 5 Beta 3".
It should read "Mageia 5 RC"
Bug number for this is 154111

Comment 4 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 10:03:03 CET

Cosmetic:
As package installation begin with "details" selected, the packages display does not scroll down. Should be fixed to avoid perceptions of inattention to detail in eyes of the user.

Bug 15412

Comment 5 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 10:25:09 CET

Cosmetic:
Description of problem:
There would be very few PCs still using IDE disks.  The message after acceptance of licence, "Configuring IDE" is outdated and should be changed to something more reassuring for the user, like 'Examining disks on your system - please wait"
Raised Bug 15414

Comment 6 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 10:51:39 CET

Functional:

any recent motherboards, particularly those supporting UEFI also provide ability for the user to set up an OS independent RAID array controlled by the motherboard firmware. The partitioning of the member disks is non-standard and not recognised directly by any partitioners (except Gnome Disks). This includes Mageia. The installer comes up with a message "Partition table of sdx is too complex for me. Do you want to ...". Later on, the partitioner is willing to trash a member disk of this array.

Specifically, the first disk is not recognised and throws the above message.
The second disk is mistaken to be an MBR partitioned disk and can be damaged depending on options selected by the user and partitioning proposals made later on.

Isw_ raid has been raised in other bugs, including MGA4 and earlier (eg 11105), and presumably will be fixed when a modernised partitioner is provided in the installer.

For now, mis-identification of disks in an evironment where there might be 4 disks on a machine (even a laptop) is dangerous.

Note this bug is not about operating-system defined and controlled software raid - only the motherboard firmware variety.

Raised Bug 15415

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2015-03-03 15:33:46 CET

please don't do that.
We already have trackers.
See preferences, saved searches => *install*

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 8 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-21 12:31:07 CEST

Closing as invalid, please use existing tracker bugs.

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