Bug 557953

Summary:	YaST completely wiped out and borked all my data from /home when transitioned from 64 to 32 bit??!!
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Piotrek Juzwiak <piotrek.juzwiak>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
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Description Piotrek Juzwiak 2009-11-24 08:20:48 UTC

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I have no idea how it did happen, i was reinstalling my system from 64 bit to 32 bit using the DVD iso's (correctly downloaded with aria and metalink). It not only didn't recognize the filesystem on it (ext4, partition was on LVM, partition was encrypted with LUKS), now (after reinstall without that partition) i get problems and i can't even format this partition. I get  error code number 3208. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

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Comment 1 Piotrek Juzwiak 2009-11-24 08:26:47 UTC

Maybe i should be more specific, i wanted to reinstall the system and change to 32 bits. Before that i had one /boot partition, one /home partition (LVM, partition not the LVM group encrypted) and / on LVM on the other group. After booting the DVD i assigned the old mount points manually, the system didn't recognize the encrypted /home as encrypted, i went into the mount/format options and chose NOT to format it and ticked encrypted and assigned /home as mount point. Now, if i would tick to format it i wouldn't notice anything and it would format it BUT i ticked NOT to format it and it didn't recognize the file system. I tried several times but it didn't work. I tried looking for spare superblocks but dumpe2fs found none, fsck.ext4 couldn't find anything (while it still shows as LUKS encrypted partition then the underlying filesystem inside is no more recognizable).

Comment 2 Shuang Qiu 2009-11-26 06:14:51 UTC

Could you please attach y2logs according to http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST.
Thanks.

Comment 3 Piotrek Juzwiak 2009-11-26 15:31:54 UTC

Unfortunatelly i don't have the old logs as i tried to restart and use that partition once again, so it got lost in tmpfs, i will try to reproduce that.

Comment 4 Arvin Schnell 2010-01-04 09:18:32 UTC

Requested information not provided within 4 weeks. Feel free to reopen the bug
once the information is provided.