Bug 668021

Summary: Cannot delete existing partitions during install without throwing an error which restarts the install
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: Bruce Edge <bruce.edge>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: schubi
Version: Milestone 5 of 6   
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Hardware: x86-64   
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Description Bruce Edge 2011-01-28 17:48:25 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15pre) Gecko/20110126 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Namoroka/3.6.15pre GTB7.1

I tried 5 of 6 and 6 of 6 with the same result.
I have 2 disks, one sata and one usb, the sata had existing LVM partitions (sda5) and the usb had 3 normal partitions.
Attempting to remove these partitions several different ways from the partitioning dialog kept throwing "An error has occurred" message (or something like that), and restarts the install in text mode.
Same thing happened when I tried to generate a new partition table to either disk.
I ended up Using Ctrl-Alt-F<something> to get a console and using fdisk to re-write an empty partition table to both drives.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with existing LVM partitions and 2 disks (maybe 2 disks not needed)
2. Try delete partitions in install partitioning menu
3. 


Expected Results:  
Partitions should have been deleted allowing me to create a fresh partitioning scheme.

Major only because it's in the installer.
Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2011-01-31 09:53:12 UTC 
assigned to maintainer
Comment 3 Thomas Fehr 2011-01-31 12:57:06 UTC 
Seems to be a duplicate of bnc#642296

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 642296 ***