Bug 4495

Summary:	Alpha 3 iso DVD (rescue system) fails to re-install a bootloader
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Juergen Harms <juergen.harms>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	sysadmin-bugs
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO, Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-rescue	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Juergen Harms 2012-02-12 11:37:30 CET

Description of problem:

Selecting rescue mode from the Alpha 3 iso DVD (i586) hangs after (or at the end of) installing its system, and before the choice of rescue actions is displayed

2 error message are displayed:
  Failed to open /dev/kmsg for logging: no such file or directory
  Failed to open /dev/shm for logging: no such file or directory


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


How reproducible:
100 %


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clean install of an Alpha 3 system (i586 )
2. Boot and than shut down the newly installed system
3. Insert the iso DVD, boot and select "Rescue System"

The rescue system starts to install, but then the 2 error messages (see above) appear, no way out

Work around: do the rescue using a Mageia 1 iso DVD (if you have one)

This situation is critical: if the install of Alpha-3 fails, it makes booting back into a properly working bootable partition difficult

Comment 1 Juergen Harms 2012-02-12 11:39:25 CET

I forgot to mention: might be related to bugzilla 441

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-13 01:09:29 CET

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.
Assigned to the package maintainer.

(Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it)

Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-rescue
Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-13 10:45:35 CET

Can you give the size anda date of the rescue you used (actually the install/stage2/rescue.sqfs file)
eg: the output of "ls -l /wherever/is/mounted/the/mageia-livecd//install/stage2/rescue.sqfs" 

But since mga2a3 was released on January 12, 2012, I'm pretty sure you're using the old non working rescue which I fixed at end of January (see http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/rescue/NEWS?view=markup)

You'd better try this one:
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/install/stage2/rescue.sqfs

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 4 Juergen Harms 2012-02-13 14:45:42 CET

>> /wherever/is/mounted/the/mageia-livecd//install/stage2/rescue.sqfs"
It is hard to get into that kernel and do the ls - once loading is launched
I have no chance of an interaction - and the alt-Fxx keys dont help.

From what you say the time invested to pursue this would very likely be lost. The reason why I filed that bug was to avoid having it burned into the Beta isos. Best approach now is: Wait for the beta iso and close the bug if things are OK there

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-13 15:48:58 CET

The ls is meant as to do ony any system, just looking at the install DVD (not while installing!)

Comment 6 Juergen Harms 2012-02-13 17:05:51 CET

Sorry - I got confused by interpreting the term "mounted" the other way round.

ls -l gives -r-xr-xr-x 1 harms harms 25137152 Jan  8 21:05 rescue.sqfs*

- way back and before your fix.

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-13 18:05:10 CET

A duplicate then

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3327 ***

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