Bug 382696

Summary: On LiveCD, GNOME keeps mounting partitions during installation, thus disabling yast live-installer
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Dejan Cabrilo <dcabrilo>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Arvin Schnell <aschnell>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: chrubis
Version: Beta 1   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description Dejan Cabrilo 2008-04-23 09:49:10 UTC 
On my hard disk, before the installation, I had:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2

During the installation (using "yast2 live-installer") I told partitioner to erase entire hard drive, and create a new layout, which was same as before (but it was instructed to delete previous partitions and create new ones):
/dev/sda1 (/boot)
/dev/sda2 (LVM for /home and /)

However:
/dev/sda1 was already mounted, so partitioner failed.

I unmounted /dev/sda1, tried again, but after the installer recreated /dev/sda1, gnome again mounted it, and installer never got to create a new file system on it.

I ended up having to manually erase two existing partitions with cfdisk, reboot, and now the installer works fine.
Comment 1 Robert Vojcik 2008-04-24 18:21:25 UTC 
Hello, 
please send all yast2 logs. If you are in doubt follow:
http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST

Thanks
Comment 2 Dejan Cabrilo 2008-05-01 22:22:33 UTC 
Unfortunately, I can't :( I don't have the spare HD any more and can't risk losing my data. If anybody has a free HD and spare time, please try to recreate my scenario.
Comment 3 Cyril Hrubis 2008-05-16 18:29:58 UTC 
Please next time remove NEEDINFO status by selecting "This comment/atachment 
provides ..." checkbox after supplying needed information. Reassigning to maintainer.
Comment 4 Arvin Schnell 2008-05-16 18:37:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 382158 ***