Bug 306029

Summary:	installation try to mount ntfs partition and exit install on error
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Danny Al-Gaaf <dalgaaf>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, szaka
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	Yast logs screenshot of the error message

Description Danny Al-Gaaf 2007-08-29 16:35:30 UTC

I have tried to install 10.3beta2 on a Acer TM 3000 with a windows NTFS partition. I have finished partitioning and package selection ans started the installation. After format my existing partition, yast try to mount the windows NTFS partition which fail with -3003. See attached logs and screenshot.

1) Why try yast to mount the windows partition which I didn't change and which is not needed while installation?
2) Why try yast to mount it writable via fuse/ntfs-3g, this is not needed and potential problematic if e.g. something go wrong while install (e.g. yast eat the memory and OOM-Killer kill the fuse process as only one screnario). If the mount is really needed (the only case I see atm is if the user try to install to a NTFS partiton, wich wasn't the case here) mount via kernel ntfs filesystem as RO
3) The partition is not needed for the installation. Why exit yast the installation process in this case? If yast exit also the complete error message for the user is _useless_ (see screenshot) there is no way for the user to change the fstab, there is only a 'OK' button which end the install process. There should be a 'Ignore' button which would allow the user to force the installation (with a text like this: "I know, what I do and I don't need the partition while installation.")

Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2007-08-29 16:36:09 UTC

Created attachment 160772 [details]
Yast logs

Comment 2 Danny Al-Gaaf 2007-08-29 16:37:18 UTC

Created attachment 160774 [details]
screenshot of the error message

Comment 3 Thomas Fehr 2007-08-30 08:52:10 UTC

It is just the known problem that ntfs-3g sometimes refuses to mount the fs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 300694 ***

Comment 4 Szabolcs Szakacsits 2007-08-30 09:29:17 UTC

NTFS-3G supports this case since version 1.826: http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html

Comment 5 Andreas Jaeger 2007-08-30 10:00:55 UTC

Do we really need to mount it during installation?

Comment 6 Thomas Fehr 2007-08-30 10:20:14 UTC

No, would there have been a feature request that NTFS filesystems should not be
mounted during installation, this could certainly have been implemented.
To my knowledge there was none.
Me was told ntfs-3g is just a drop-in replacement for ntfs and it was integrated 
under this assumption.