Bug 9427

Summary: 3 beta 3 live installer softraid+lvm problems
Product: Mageia Reporter: Loic Brarda <lp>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: ISO building group <isobuild>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: Normal CC: pterjan, qa-bugs, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Version: CauldronKeywords: NEEDINFO
Target Milestone: Mageia 3   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Loic Brarda 2013-03-17 00:50:03 CET
Description of problem:
Using live installer to install on a softraid+lvm setup already existing.
This hdd setup is not recognised automatically (1st problem), so the logic (at least, that's how I did it) is that we first add the partition to raid arrays, using expert mode. So select a partition and click 'Add to Raid' ('Ajouter au RAID' in french). The live installer then wants to install 'mdadm' but does not finds it (2nd problem). If we previously had added the software sources, it is ok.
Having done that, rerun the installer, add the partitions to raid volumes.
Instead of the lvm volume group, the raid tab shows one big ext4 partition.
I then tried to change the type to lvm, but then it's a new VG and the existing logical volume are not there.
Even bigger problems : the bad actions are already done and either clicking on finish or to File menu / Quit let the disk setup in the bad shape (either ext4 partition or the new VG instead of the existing lvm VG). 

Needless to say that if everything was not backed up, you loose data.

Usually, installers, at least previous Mandriva and Fedora, execute actions only when all partitions / raid vloumes / lvm parts are setup and you confirm and alway let you an exit door which does not break your setup.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3 beta 3 live installer

How reproducible:
easilly reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to install on an existing softraid+lvm setup
2. loose your data



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Loic Brarda 2013-03-17 00:50:43 CET

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 3

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-03-17 01:01:03 CET
do you know if you get same situation with classical install ?

CC: (none) => pterjan, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 2 Loic Brarda 2013-04-07 15:21:45 CEST
Sorry, I did not saw the mail. I think it's the same, but as I don't want to break my home setup again, I'll try next week at work (where I have many computers to play with).
Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 18:57:35 CEST
There have been lots of changes recently.

tmb, is this bug likely to be fixed now?

Adding qa in CC who could tell maybe, too.

CC: (none) => qa-bugs

Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 18:57:42 CEST

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-08-26 13:49:56 CEST
Closing as OLD because this bug saw no action since over a year ago.

Please reopen if it is still valid with Mageia6sta1 or newer

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
Assignee: tmb => isobuild