Bug 193629

Summary:	Yast2 partitioner unable to format IDE disk at install time.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Digvijoy Chatterjee <digvijoy.c>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Alpha 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	The tarball of /var/log/Yast2

Description Digvijoy Chatterjee 2006-07-20 03:46:02 UTC

The install process hangs when trying to format newly created
partitions with reiser4.
I tried all different combinations of paritioning ,each time the partitions got
created but the formatting never went through. Finally I had to use fdisk
to create partitions and mkreiserfs to format them, and then asked Yast2 to install without formatting the disk,which worked.

The current state of my manually created and formatted disk is :
Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2806    22539163+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2807        2931     1004062+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3            2932        7296    35061862+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2932        7296    35061831   83  Linux

The Yast2 partitioner successfully created partition as visible on the  GUI ,but after that it kept on trying to format the disk, and the progress bar never moved.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-07-21 07:24:18 UTC

Please attach /var/log/YaST2 as tarball here.

Comment 2 Digvijoy Chatterjee 2006-07-22 00:01:16 UTC

Created attachment 94248 [details]
The tarball of /var/log/Yast2

Attached is the tar ball

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-07-24 06:35:32 UTC

Thomas, please have a look.

Comment 4 Thomas Fehr 2006-07-24 14:21:42 UTC

Unfortunately the attached log contains the successful installation where you did
not format at all. I would need a log where installations fails to see what
goes wrong. 

You mention that you do a reiser4 installation, how do you do that, so
far there is no support for reiser4 in SL 10.2 at all.

Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2006-10-19 11:45:41 UTC

No info provided, closing.