Bug 253393

Summary:	Formatting a swap partition does not work
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Ulrich Derenthal <uli.2001>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	My yast logs, as created by save_y2logs.

Description Ulrich Derenthal 2007-03-10 16:17:38 UTC

When I try to format a partition using Yast as swap, it says:

Error during the following operation:
Setting partition for /dev/sda6 type to 82.
System error code: -1012
(This is my own translation from the german text.)

This also happened during initial setup.

Comment 1 Matej Horvath 2007-03-12 13:04:24 UTC

Please attach your yast logs and output of 'fdisk -l'.

Comment 2 Ulrich Derenthal 2007-03-14 08:48:04 UTC

> fdisk -l

Platte /dev/sda: 80.0 GByte, 80026361856 Byte
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        2612    20972857    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *        9172        9729     4475520    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 2 endet nicht an einer Zylindergrenze.
/dev/sda3            2612        9172    52699311+   f  W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/sda5            2612        3917    10490413+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            3918        4113     1574338+  82  Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7            4114        8552    35656236   83  Linux
/dev/sda8            8553        9171     4972086   83  Linux

Partitionstabelleneinträge sind nicht in Platten-Reihenfolge

Comment 3 Ulrich Derenthal 2007-03-14 08:50:30 UTC

Created attachment 124208 [details]
My yast logs, as created by save_y2logs.

Comment 4 Thomas Fehr 2007-03-14 10:25:39 UTC

Problem is fixed for SL 10.3
As a workaroung simply restart YaST2 retry it, the partition type was succesfully
changed but parted reported an error nevertheless.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 231887 ***

Comment 5 Ulrich Derenthal 2007-03-17 15:17:02 UTC

For FAT partitions this is similar, but the workaround does not work:

I try to format it: It complains about not being able to change the partition type. Then I restart Yast: The partition type is changed to FAT. I try to format the partition again: Here, it tries to change the partition type again, and it fails.

Comment 6 Thomas Fehr 2007-03-19 11:40:19 UTC

You are right but nevertheless this is still a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 231887 ***