Bug 3806

Summary:	Let installer report an error on upgrade when needed partitions can't be mounted
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dan Fandrich <dan>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	mageia-gfxboot-theme	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dan Fandrich 2011-12-18 06:55:25 CET

I tried upgrading a Mandriva 2010.2 x86 installation to Mageia 2 alpha2 via the DVD and was unsuccessful. The problem was that the installer was not able to mount the Mandriva /var partition (due to an issue reported here separately), but continued attempting to install anyway. Needless to say, the lack of /var meant that the Mandriva RPM database was not available and the upgrade was dramatically unsuccessful. It ended up upgrading 100-200 packages (out of ~2000) before declaring completion, and leaving the system in a bootable (surprisingly), but completely unusable state.

If any of the required mount points (e.g. /usr, /var, /boot, etc.) could not be mounted, then the installer should immediately error out.

Comment 1 Dan Fandrich 2011-12-18 07:08:18 CET

The missing RPM database should really be treated as a separate issue. Even if /var could be mounted, if the RPM database still isn't available (e.g. is corrupted, missing, etc.) when the user specified an upgrade, then the installer should give an error and not continue (or perhaps offer to change the upgrade to a regular install).

Thierry Vignaud 2011-12-18 11:47:25 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-01 11:01:05 CET

assigning to maintainer

@ thierry

do you need a report.bug of such an install-attempt?

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Summary: Installer doesn't report an error on upgrade when partitions can't be mounted => Let installer report an error on upgrade when needed partitions can't be mounted
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-01 11:17:39 CET

yes.
also a link on the other bug report for the failure on mounting /var

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-01 11:36:21 CET

(In reply to comment #3)
> yes.
> also a link on the other bug report for the failure on mounting /var

@ Dan

Can you please reproduce this problem, plug in a usb stick when you start installing, go to tty2 with ctrl+alt+F2 and type: 
bug
and hit enter
 
that'll put report.bug on your usb key (ctrl+alt+F7 will of course take you back to where you came from)
please attach report.bug to this report.

I just searched for bugs that were reported by you before this one, but didn't find a report that I understand to be about the other issue, so please give the correct link to that report, too

Thanks :)

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-16 17:56:47 CET

@ Dan,

could you please reply to the previous questions? If you won't reply within two weeks from now, I will have to close this bug as OLD. Thank you.

Comment 6 Dan Fandrich 2012-02-16 21:49:05 CET

Sorry, my computer is inaccessible for another month and I won't be able to try this until after that. The issue with not being able to mount /var was bug #3807.

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2012-02-17 06:22:10 CET

== no needinfo ping before march 17th ==

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2012-03-21 06:27:28 CET

Over a month later :)

Please reproduce this problem with the Mga2b2a DVD, plug in a usb stick when you observe /var can't be mounted, go to tty2 with ctrl+alt+F2 and type: 
bug
and hit enter.

That'll put report.bug on your usb key (ctrl+alt+F7 will of course take you
back to where you came from)
please attach report.bug to this report.

Instead of doing this, it is also possible to attach /root/drakx/report.bug.gz after install

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-14 23:16:51 CEST

@ Dan

Can you please reply to comment 8 ?

You can also wait a few days till the Mga2b3 DVD becomes available, and reply then.

Comment 10 Dan Fandrich 2012-04-15 00:02:18 CEST

My test computer should be in service again shortly, so I'll try to test the beta 3 DVD and report back.

Comment 11 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-02 09:02:27 CEST

(In reply to comment #10)
> My test computer should be in service again shortly, so I'll try to test the
> beta 3 DVD and report back.

ping?

Comment 12 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:10:12 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Comment 13 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-03 18:13:18 CEST

So someone should try to install with a btrfs or a nilfs2 partition then remove the module from stage1...

Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => mageia-gfxboot-theme

Comment 14 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-04 17:09:38 CEST

I cannot reproduce that bug in Cauldron.
I installed a system with /usr as btrfs, then restarted the install without the btrfs module.
The installer will then keep trying mounting /usr, displaying an error dialog each time. It's thus impossible to go further...
Logs show "missing module btrfs" and the dialog say "An error occured. Mounting partition foobar in directory /mnt/usr failed".

As there was no answer from reporter for monthes, I close this bug

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

Comment 15 Dan Fandrich 2012-09-04 22:15:18 CEST

Sorry, I only got that machine up and running again two weeks ago, and bug #6180 is preventing me from trying this out again. But, it looks like Thierry's test case indicates this is no longer an issue (unless /var is treated differently from /usr).