Bug 15605 - installer issues: crash when select use avail. space, sub-optimal partitioning
Summary: installer issues: crash when select use avail. space, sub-optimal partitioning
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 15690
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Whiteboard: M5 x86_64 RC5
Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2015-04-01 09:49 CEST by Tony Blackwell
Modified: 2015-04-15 22:26 CEST (History)
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Description Tony Blackwell 2015-04-01 09:49:55 CEST
Description of problem:
(New bug as Len Lawrence thought this was different from recent somewhat-related issues)

Laptop with 2x SSD 256Gb drives.  (I've split the raid pending Mageia raid fixes).
x86_64 RC5 install still halts after choosing 'use available space' install option:
An error occurred
You must have an ESP Fat32 partition mounted in /boot/EFI

By choosing 'use available space' there has been no opportunity for manually choosing the mount point for the existing EFI partition, so the installer needs to find it and make a mount point for it, rather than complaining this hasn't been done. (with custom install, this isn't an issue - I just make the mount point manually).  I went back a step, then saw it had created sda4 and 7 of 50 and 150Gb, proposing / and /home as mount points for these.  Nothing said this time about EFI, but it still hasn't given the EFI partition a mount point that I can see.  Allowing install to run and see what happens...

Well, the install froze shortly after, almost nothing installed:
urpmi error: unable to install package /tmp/image/media/core/hostname-3.15-5.mga5.x86_64.rpm
urpmi error: unable to install package /tmp/image/media/core/iproute2-3.19.0-1.mga5.x86_64.rpm
urpmi error: Can't open file [/tmp/image/media/core/lib64intl8-0.19.4-1.mga5.x86_64.rpm] [No such file or directory]

I see the 'use available space' install also did odd stuff in partitioning; I had existing sda1 of 407Mb, sda2 EFI of 300Mb, sda3 of 128 Mb (for MS-Win) and there was an sda6 swap partition of 2.6Gb.  I'd deleted sda4 and sda5 M4 and M5 partitions and left empty space.  Installer created sda4 of 50Gb, a second swap in new sda5 of 4Gb, and sda7 of 180Gb which I saw on earlier run was for /home.  The partition numbering order is now wrong; the installer hasn't fixed this, and the 2nd swap was unnecessary.

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Tony Blackwell 2015-04-01 09:50:49 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => M5 x86_64 RC5

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2015-04-01 09:52:25 CEST
Please try again.
When you see the error, please:
- plug a USB key
- go to tty2 (alt+ctrl+F2)
- run the "bug" command
- attach the report.bug file you will find on your USB key here.
  (but please compress it first)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2015-04-15 22:26:38 CEST
not auto mounting ESP in live has been fixed
The issue relating to accessing a file looks like a bogus CD one to me.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15690 ***

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


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