Bug 7016

Summary:	Installer should not end successfully if some very important packages are not installed
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Claire Revillet <grenoya>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	USABILITY
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	ddebug.log of the second failed installation propagate the error

Description Claire Revillet 2012-08-11 13:00:54 CEST

Description of problem:
While installing mga2 (boot-nonfree.iso) in VirtualBox, i had several 'transaction failed'.
One of them was on a require of rpm, so rpm was not installed.
But the installer continues, asking for a root password, etcaetera... resulting with an unusable mga2 (bootable, but can install anything)



What about making the installer failed officially or restart or ... anything but not let the user with such a useless box ?



Steps to Reproduce:
No idea :)

Comment 1 Claire Revillet 2012-08-11 14:32:10 CEST

My bloody connection helped my reproducing !

This time rpm was there but not urpmi (and i ask the minimal installation *with* urpmi) nor dhcp-client and some other less blocking.

as suggested by blino on IRC : the installer should check that basesystem (and other important packages maybe like urpmi and dhcp-client) is correctly installed before going on to the next step. If not it should download the hdlists again and so on.

i join here the ddebug.log of my second failed installation.

Summary: Installer should stop the installation if rpm is not installed => Installer should not end succefully if some very important packages are not installed

Comment 2 Claire Revillet 2012-08-11 14:35:39 CEST

Created attachment 2634 [details]
ddebug.log of the second failed installation

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-03 15:12:31 CEST

bumping to cauldron as installer is frozen for stable releases

Keywords: (none) => USABILITY
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Version: 2 => Cauldron

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-03 16:17:04 CEST

Created attachment 2739 [details]
propagate the error

It's possible to propagate the error but in some case, the system is still usable even if some transactions failed.

Alternatively we could run more checks, like checking if a shell and/or rpm works

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-03 17:50:18 CEST

Fixed in git

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

Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-18 09:10:03 CET

Summary: Installer should not end succefully if some very important packages are not installed => Installer should not end successfully if some very important packages are not installed