Bug 14758 - system must be rebooted after creating partitions
Summary: system must be rebooted after creating partitions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: 5beta1
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-12-09 13:48 CET by cornel panceac
Modified: 2015-05-29 13:22 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2
CVE:
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Description cornel panceac 2014-12-09 13:48:05 CET
Description of problem: 
installing mageia 5 onto an empty virtual disk.
after telling the installer to partition space automatically, it wants to reboot the virtual machine.

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


How reproducible:
1/1

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start installer on empty target storage
2.create partitions automaticall
3.

Expected:
we go on with the installer

Actual results:
it asks to reboot

Additional info:
After reboot, you have to tell the installer what to do with the automatically created partitions.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Rémi Verschelde 2014-12-09 13:54:39 CET

CC: (none) => remi
Whiteboard: (none) => 5beta1

Rémi Verschelde 2014-12-09 13:54:52 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 1 Stephane 2015-02-22 10:55:02 CET
I noticed the same behavior with Mageia-5-beta3-x86_64-DVD on real Hardware and windows partition already on disk.

After creating Mageia partitions, installer asked to reboot. Next tentative, I choose partitions created added mount point and installation continue normally.

CC: (none) => stephane_oss

Comment 2 Mageia Robot 2015-03-20 21:40:13 CET
commit 639429951345886de94d497a3076e0e0966e4636
Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...>
Date:   Mon Feb 23 19:00:51 2015 +0100

    fix telling kernel to reread partition table
    
    use libparted in order to do so (mga#14758)
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=639429951345886de94d497a3076e0e0966e4636
Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-29 13:22:07 CEST
Closing

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


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