Bug 231496

Summary:	partitioning on disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 is not readable
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Forgotten User YLzcEHequO <forgotten_YLzcEHequO>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	bbr1960
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	Installation logs Output from parted command on console.

Description Forgotten User YLzcEHequO 2007-01-03 15:32:34 UTC

When trying to _upgrade_ a 10.0 system to 10.2 boxed media I get the following error:

"The partitioning on disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 is not readable by the
partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the partition table.

You can use the partitions on disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 as they are. You can
format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit,
resize or remove partitions from the disk with this tool."

If I drop down to console (alt-F2 at the language selection screen) I can mount the partitions without error. As there are a number of settings I have made to the existing system I wish _not_ to have todo a fresh install.

According to bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219496 this was fixed for stable/SLES/SLED but apparently _did not_ make it into 10.2 final.

This clearly is not a driver issue as I can mount the partitions, therefore the problem most likely still resides in parted.

Is there any workaround or am I _forced_ to perform a fresh install?

Ken

Comment 1 Thomas Fehr 2007-01-08 14:25:52 UTC

So far I see no real reason why update should not work, the problem prevents
repartitioning of the disk, but this is not needed during update. Maybe some
side effect prevents the update.

Since I do not have access to such a machine I cannot test this myself.
You can simply confirm the error popup and try if update path is usable.
If update fails, please attach y2log files so I can see what causes the update
to break.

Comment 2 Bernward Bretthauer 2007-01-09 14:21:09 UTC

Created attachment 111999 [details]
Installation logs

Comment 3 Bernward Bretthauer 2007-01-09 14:21:58 UTC

Created attachment 112001 [details]
Output from parted command on console.

Comment 4 Bernward Bretthauer 2007-01-09 14:25:22 UTC

I have exactly the same error message on a Compaq with a cpqarray-controller. I tried an update from openSUSE 10.1 to openSUSE 10.2.

What the error message tells is not true. parted can read the partition table. It is not possible to use the partitions on the disk as they are, so an update is not possible.

I have attached the installation logs and the output of parted.
 
B. Bretthauer

Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2007-01-09 14:29:09 UTC

Thanks for the logs. Unfortunately I do not ahve any good news.
In systems with compaq cciss controller not even an update using YaST2 is
possible.

Duplicating this to #228707

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 228707 ***