Bug 23569

Summary:	drakboot crashed
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jorge Neto <jnt277>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	isobuild, mageia, mageiatools, marja11, zen25000
Version:	6	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakxtools-17.88-1.mga6	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jorge Neto 2018-09-13 04:22:22 CEST

The "drakboot" program crashed. Drakbug-17.88 caught it.

After installation (x4 times)
Boot to live sys USB PEN again (x4 times)
With Control  Center - "Set up Boot system" to install grub 
Can not boot w/ grub - Can not install grub it says unknow file system (grub)
I give up on mageia. AFTER 2 HOURS OF INSTALLATION ATTEMPTS.
I did formated the (new) SSD drive w/ expert mode and an EFI SYS Partition and ext4.
All normal partitions from my side.


update-grub2 failed: mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
/usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of ‘overlay’.
	...propagated at /usr/libexec/drakboot line 49.
Perl's trace:
drakbug::bug_handler() called from /usr/libexec/drakboot:49

Theme name: Adwaita
Kernel version = 4.9.35-desktop-1.mga6
Distribution=Mageia release 6 (Official) for x86_64
CPU=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-7300 CPU @ 4.00GHz

Comment 1 Jorge Neto 2018-09-13 04:26:53 CEST

I meant to say
Halted the PC - Boot the PC to grub and - no, grub did not install any partitioon table it can't.
Don't know what more to say, explain.
Good Luck and nice code time

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2018-09-16 14:13:48 CEST

Hi Jorge,

Thanks for the bug report and sorry to read about the trouble you ran into.

You tried to install from a Live iso, right?

Do you mind telling which exact Live iso?

Do you still have Mageia installed on a partition, or did you overwrite it with another distribution?

If you do still have it, then it would be fabulous if you could use the Live iso in Live mode to mount the root partition you installed to.

There's a directory with a very long hexadecimal name in
 /that/partition's/var/log/journal/

please run, as root:

  journalctl -D /path/into/that/hexadecimal/directory/ > log.txt

and attach log.txt to this bug report.

If the log.txt is too large to attach, then do first run:

  xz log.txt

and attach log.txt.xz
  

I'll CC the persons with the most knowled about grub, drakboot and live isos, even if we don't have the needed logs, yet.

Oh, one more question:

You didn't mention that, but you did also try booting into your fresh install *without* the USB-key attached, right?

CC: (none) => isobuild, mageiatools, marja11, zen25000
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2018-09-20 17:44:45 CEST

If you attempt to set up the bootloader in MCC when booted into the live system, that will attempt to configure the bootloader for the live system, not for your installed system. I would expect that to fail. We should try to disable drakboot when running in live mode, to avoid users making that mistake.

The bootloader for your installed system should have been configured and installed at the end of the installation process. To find out why that didn't work, we need the information Marja has asked for.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2018-11-03 09:57:09 CET

No reply :-(

So closing as OLD.

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