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| Summary: | YAST online update package not installed. Linux-LVM-partition hidden after installation. | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1 | Reporter: | Udo Reumschuessel <ureumsc> |
| Component: | YaST2 | Assignee: | Thomas Fehr <fehr> |
| Status: | VERIFIED INVALID | QA Contact: | Jiri Srain <jsrain> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | jsuchome |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 12.1 | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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the requested YAST logs exept y2log-1.gz
This should be the requested file y2log-1.gz description of disk with diskpart / GParted / fdisk |
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Description
Udo Reumschuessel
2012-04-22 12:10:50 UTC
Hm. First try: because of broken LVM, some packages (e.g. yast2-online-update) were not instaled... ? I would need file y2log-1 to see what was going on. The logs attached do not contain any information about disk layout. I do not know of any code where we set a partition to hidden. I would expect something simply overwrote data on your disk and everything in the extended partition could be simply lost. Since LVM does not care about partition id (I just tried creating and using an LVM VG on a hidden partition and this worked fine), I also would not expect that setting the partition id would help. One can set the partition from hidden to normal with fdisk. start "fdisk /dev/sda" enter letter 't', and the type partition number and enter hex value for partition id '8E' for lvm partition. Afterwards type letter 'w' to write changed partition table to disk. But at first it would be helpful to get info about current partition table. This can be done by "fdisk -l /dev/sda" of "parted /dev/sda unit s print unit cyl print" Created attachment 487761 [details]
This should be the requested file y2log-1.gz
I cannot find anything problematic regarding partitioning in the log file. There are hidden partitions (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda4) but these are normal on a Dell system. /dev/sda1 is the Dell Utility partition, /dev/sda4 Dell Restore partition. LVM ion /dev/sda9 and is detected fine. Installation is also fine until there is a read error from install media: /bin/cp: failed to extend `/mnt/var/tmp/var/tmp/TmpDir.bG9Ooo/images/x11-meta-i386.tar.xz': Input/output error and numerous other error when copying data from DVD drive. I would advise to retry installation from scratch with a different install medium. If this also fails with media error maybe your DVD drive is at fault. Created attachment 487824 [details]
description of disk with diskpart / GParted / fdisk
Thank you for digging into the details. I created the DVD with half the possible velocity in order to avoid problems. But I will try again. In between I created lists of the content of the disk with diskpart (Microsoft), GParted and fdisk. I created an attachment with these lists because of the fact, that the LVM partition is not accessible any more. An older version of QtParted claimed the partition to be hidden. All these tools don't allow to change the type of the partition. So I tried to use the hex editor HxD under Microsoft Windows. But unfortunately it looks like I don't understand the LBA addresses in the partition table in the MBR. Why? The extended partition is shown as 00 00 C1 FF 0F E2 FD FF C7 F0 41 06 39 1F 9C 1E with 0F = extended partition (LBA) LBA for start of partition is C7 F0 41 06 number of sectors is 39 1F 9C 1E As far as I know the LBA has only 28 bits. If I take 7 F0 41 06 than this is 133185798 decimal. But there I don't find a partition table to get to the next logical partition. Otherwise I just have to create a new partition in the "free" area and install openSUSE 11.4 from fresh. Have a good day. (In reply to comment #4) > I cannot find anything problematic regarding partitioning in the log file. > There are hidden partitions (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda4) but these are normal > on a Dell system. /dev/sda1 is the Dell Utility partition, /dev/sda4 Dell > Restore > partition. LVM ion /dev/sda9 and is detected fine. Installation is also fine > until there is a read error from install media: > /bin/cp: failed to extend > `/mnt/var/tmp/var/tmp/TmpDir.bG9Ooo/images/x11-meta-i386.tar.xz': Input/output > error > and numerous other error when copying data from DVD drive. > I would advise to retry installation from scratch with a different install > medium. > If this also fails with media error maybe your DVD drive is at fault. It seems as if something removed /dev/sda10. This must have happened after what I saw in the yast2 logs since the ssh logs still show sda10 as being present and containing LVM. It is on the following cylinders according to parted output from logs: 10 33832cyl 38501cyl 4669cyl logical lvm, type=8e alternately the sectors are also showed: 10 543512576s 618532863s 75020288s logical lvm, type=8e If you use parted to create the partition at the same place your LVM data should show up again. |