Bug 3385

Summary:	Clean install using pre-release alpha 1 fails in formatting or right after selecting partition.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dave Hodgins <davidwhodgins>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ftg, tmb
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	3alpha3
Source RPM:	kernel-3.1.0-2.mga2.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	report.bug just before trying to format sda4, which fails report from bug command after the formatting error.

Description Dave Hodgins 2011-11-18 21:32:07 CET

I tried a clean install using the pre-release alpha 1 iso burnt to a dvd
(validated by k3b during burning).

After selecting the partition, when it tries to format, it terminates without
any error messages.

On a retry, I switched to the console, and mkfs.ext4 worked, so it isn't
a problem at that level, it's failing trying to call mkfs.ext4.

If I unselect the option to format the already formatted partition, clicking
on next terminates the installation.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-18 21:59:37 CET

Thanks for the bug report.
Could you provide the file /root/drakx/report.bug.gz as an attachment ?
If you don't have the file, you can switch to console 2 (by pressing 'Ctrl-Alt-F2') during installation, put a floppy in floppy drive or plug a USB key/stick and type: bug then press Enter. It will put report.bug on the floppy/key.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2011-11-18 22:42:30 CET

This must be specific to the ISO, as I just did a fresh install this afternoon formatting an ext4 root partition, and it worked fine.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2011-11-18 23:32:38 CET

Created attachment 1079 [details]
report.bug just before trying to format sda4, which fails

I burned a new regular dvd, just to rule out media problems with the rewritable
dvd I was using.  Same result.  The sha1sum on the iso is ok.

Dave Hodgins 2011-11-18 23:35:07 CET

Attachment 1079 mime type: application/octet-stream => text/plain

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-19 00:04:00 CET

ok thanks.

Assigned to the package maintainer.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 5 Dave Hodgins 2011-11-19 04:16:57 CET

On rebooting into a fully updated cauldron install, I've found
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525#c74 is back, making my
dvd drive inaccessible.

This means this bug will only affect people using ide dvd drives that
use the via chipset.

Summary: Clean install using pre-release alpha 1 fails in formatting or right after selecting partition. => module pata_acpi loads before pata_via making dvd inaccessible
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => kernel-3.1.0-2.mga2.src.rpm

Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-19 15:36:14 CET

(In reply to comment #5)
> On rebooting into a fully updated cauldron install, I've found
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525#c74 is back, making my
> dvd drive inaccessible.
> 
> This means this bug will only affect people using ide dvd drives that
> use the via chipset.

Add tmb for that, but maybe separate that from this bug ?

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 7 Dave Hodgins 2011-11-19 22:36:47 CET

Created attachment 1088 [details]
report from bug command after the formatting error.

This report.bug was generated right after getting the message

An error occured
ext4 formatting of sda4 failed

This time I booted with the noacpi option, and confirmed that the pata_via
module was loaded, and /dev/sr0 was available in stage2.

I was too quick to assume the cauldron loading pata_acpi was also the
cause of this problem.  Changing the description back to the original
reported.  I'll open a separate bug report about pata_acpi on cauldron.

Attachment 1079 is obsolete: 0 => 1

Dave Hodgins 2011-11-19 22:37:18 CET

Summary: module pata_acpi loads before pata_via making dvd inaccessible => Clean install using pre-release alpha 1 fails in formatting or right after selecting partition.

Comment 8 Dave Hodgins 2011-11-19 22:42:08 CET

I should add the error message shows up almost instantly after clicking
on the button to try and format the partition, so it is not running
the mkfs.ext4 at all.

Comment 9 Dave Hodgins 2012-02-18 08:36:42 CET

The problem is back with the latest cauldron installs.

Despite having ... # cat /etc/modprobe.d/pata-via-first.conf
install pata_acpi /sbin/modprobe pata_via; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install pata_acpi

pata_acpi is being loaded before pata_via, so my hard drives are hda
instead of sda, and the dvd drive is not sr0.

Comment 10 Dave Hodgins 2012-02-18 20:44:17 CET

Argh. Sorry, Comment 9 was meant for bug report 3395.

Comment 11 Dave Hodgins 2012-02-18 20:48:22 CET

Closing this bug report as I got past the formatting stage with beta 1.

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

Comment 12 Dave Hodgins 2012-11-03 23:29:32 CET

This bug is back with the Mageia 3 alpha 3 live iso images, both in live
mode, and after installing.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED => (none)
Whiteboard: (none) => 3alpha3

Comment 13 Dave Hodgins 2012-11-03 23:31:36 CET

Sorry, did it again.  Mixed up this one and 3395.

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