Bug 4653

Summary:	at partioning step the installer wants to restart, losing previous language and keyboard selections
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Remco Rijnders <remco>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, djmarian4u, rwobben
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Remco Rijnders 2012-02-23 07:47:54 CET

Description of problem:

Today I installed Mageia 2 beta 1 on my netbook. This netbook had an existing install of a different distribution on an encrypted partition.

I *think* I selected the advanced / expert (I know, I know!) option and it asked me for the password for the encrypted drive, which I entered. 

Then selecting to add that partition to the lvm group caused the partitioner to get lost (I think there might be other bug reports open on that already).

Anyways, I then manually selected to remove this partition. It then said it had to reboot the computer in order to pick up the changes to the partition table.

This is not very userfriendly to do this at this point as my previous choices with regards to language, keyboard, accepting the license, etc. were now all lost and had to be entered again upon rebooting.

Is there any way that this reboot can be avoided?

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2012-02-23 09:01:16 CET

My current understanding, is that when a partition is deleted, causing
existing partitions to "be renumbered", a reboot is required in order
to get the kernel and things like udev to re-read the partition table,
and re-create the appropriate /dev/sd entries.

I don't think it can be safely avoided without a lot of work get all
affected  software to also reload their partition lists.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-24 19:48:13 CET

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

Dan Joita 2012-03-07 11:22:11 CET

CC: (none) => djmarian4u
Summary: At partioning step the installer wants to restart, losing previous language and keyboard selections => at partioning step the installer wants to restart, losing previous language and keyboard selections

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:02:59 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

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 roelof Wobben 2013-01-11 09:50:25 CET

Close this as old because there is no respons in half a year.
When someone wants to reopen it please provide details as the version of
mageia

Roelof

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => r.wobben
Resolution: (none) => OLD