Bug 780

Summary:	Installer shuts down while preparing bootloader
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dr House <Mageia2.ScarfCity>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	pterjan
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dr House 2011-04-11 18:59:24 CEST

Description of problem:
During a fresh install of Mageia Beta 1, the installer stops and the system shuts down at the point where the installer is (presumably) examining the system for other linux distributions.

Once the installer crashes and the system shuts down, it is possible to complete the install by rebooting and choosing to "upgrade" the existing installation.  The rest of the installation proceeds without error.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia Beta 1


How reproducible:
This is a difficult question.  Clearly, others have successfully installed Mageia Beta 1.  But I have reproduced this error three times on my test machine.

So, to the extent that the error depends on my configuration, the only thing I can think to mention is that this disk contains roughly a dozen different linux distros on it, each with its own GRUB menu on the first sector of its respective partition.


NOTE: I am categorizing this as a Critical bug, based on the criterion that is crashes the system.  However, no data is lost as a result of this bug.

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Ahmad Samir 2011-04-12 08:06:31 CEST

CC: (none) => pterjan
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 1 Dr House 2011-05-02 02:35:20 CEST

For what it's worth, I cannot reproduce this bug in Beta 2.

Good luck, folks.

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-02 16:44:59 CEST

OK, closing then.

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