Bug 606312

Summary: Improving Encrypted drives, Bug 2 (ISO repo over encrypted partition)
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: K Takahashi <iridis.p>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aschnell
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Description K Takahashi 2010-05-17 09:32:32 UTC 
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Hello, this is part of a series of bugs related to encrypted partitions, thanks.

2) To add an ISO image as repository during an installation process, while this image is in a manually mounted partition, the disk table is... corrupted (or something like that), and the data in such partition is lost.

This happened in 11.0 and 11.1, have not been able to test it in 11.2 but I am reporting both for future reference and in case it still exist in 11.2 and to prevent it in future releases.

I do not feel the bug as 'critical' but it does lead to data loss, so I have selected Major, as a mid-point.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a drive with two or more partitions
2. Place a copy of the openSUSE ISO dvd in one of the partitions
3. Boot from physical dvd image
4. Manually mount the other patition
5. Select such iso as an installation repo
6. Continue installation using the other partition as target.
7. After rebook, all data on the encrypted partition will be lost, in fact, the partition table is lost some times.
Comment 1 Thomas Fehr 2010-05-18 09:08:52 UTC 
We are not planning to support installation from ISO images on encrypted
volumes. For the problem of lossing the partition table I currently do not
see how this could happen. Please provide y2log files.
Comment 2 Arvin Schnell 2010-11-05 15:19:41 UTC 
Requested information not provided. Feel free to reopen the bug once the
information is provided.