Bug 537084

Summary: Partitioner may clear labels on new installs.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aschnell
Version: Factory   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Description Carlos Robinson 2009-09-06 12:22:20 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-2.4 Firefox/3.5.2

I installed openSUSE-DVD-Build0233-i586.iso last night. 11.2 M6.

The partitioner made a proposal to format sda11 as / and sda20 as /home. The rationale for choosing those is unknown/unguessable to me: the first one is a production /home partition, the second is my big storage partition. The correct guess would have been one of the four existing / partitions. Better, it should provide a list of partitions to choose from, not select one directly, and use that user provided list to make a new proposal.

However, I expected that behaviour, it is not new to me. I edited the partition, said "not format", removed those mountpoints, set another partition for format and use, added several other partitions... I see there is an entry to list all changes. There I see the correct partitions, but it says that the labels for the two partitions that were on the original proposal are going to be cleared! Even if they are not going to be formatted. That would make my production system broken. There is no place I could find to tell the partitioner not to clear the labels.

I had to go back, select the option to make a new partition setting from scratch in expert mode (I forgot the exact wording, sorry), and redo.


Another problem: on this new table I selected defaults, to mount by label and format as reiserfs. The mount by label setting as default was ignored, I had to manually select it for each new or old partition.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2009-09-22 07:24:43 UTC 
Installation is just a framework around several YaST modules - it doesn't do much itself, just calls the others. Partitioner issues sounds like yast2-storage, what do you think?
Comment 2 Arvin Schnell 2009-09-28 12:50:56 UTC 
Need YaST logs from installation.
Comment 3 Carlos Robinson 2009-09-28 19:32:33 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Need YaST logs from installation.

Where are those files saved once the installation is done?

I only have access to the already installed system, not the live system during install.
Comment 4 Arvin Schnell 2009-09-28 20:30:07 UTC 
They are in /var/log/YaST anyway, unless "logrotated". See http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST.
Comment 5 Arvin Schnell 2009-10-27 09:13:48 UTC 
Requested information not provided within 4 weeks. Feel free to reopen the bug
once the information is provided.
Comment 6 Carlos Robinson 2009-10-27 20:16:33 UTC 
Created attachment 324399 [details]
requested logs

(In reply to comment #5)
> Requested information not provided within 4 weeks. Feel free to reopen the bug
> once the information is provided.

Oops! SI forgot. I did prepare the zip archive (Oct 5) with the logs, but somehow I forgot to send them. Here they go.

If you need more logs, complete YaST logs were attached to Bug 538822,
https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=323094
Comment 7 Carlos Robinson 2009-10-27 20:22:43 UTC 
Dummy comment to reopen bug (reason to reopen is in #6 already).
Comment 8 Thomas Fehr 2009-11-09 17:26:28 UTC 
I changed the behaviour now so that an existing label is preserved when the
format flag for the filesystem is set from yes to no.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 537064 ***