Bug 115140 - installation gets stuck when "preparing your hard disk"
Summary: installation gets stuck when "preparing your hard disk"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 4
Hardware: x86 Other
: P5 - None : Normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Hubert Mantel
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-09-03 14:54 UTC by Olli Lehto
Modified: 2005-11-15 11:47 UTC (History)
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Found By: Beta-Customer
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/var/log/YaST2/ directory (308.04 KB, application/x-gzip)
2005-09-05 09:22 UTC, Olli Lehto 		Details
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Description Olli Lehto 2005-09-03 14:54:53 UTC 
I've tried installation a couple of times and sometimes installation got stuck
in the "preparing your hard disk" phase, when normally starts formatting of
partitions. Bush buttons of the dialog don't work, power switch is needed.

Fujitsu-Siemen Amilo A 7620
Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-05 07:27:23 UTC 
Please, provide YaST logs if possible

http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST

Thanks
Comment 2 Olli Lehto 2005-09-05 09:22:56 UTC 
Created attachment 48755 [details]
/var/log/YaST2/ directory
Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-05 09:30:43 UTC 
arvin, fehr, please have a look at it.
Comment 4 Olli Lehto 2005-09-05 09:38:41 UTC 
I noticed that the logs I sent may not be relevant to the case: I had to kill
the installation using power switch. Is it possible to get logs of installations
that get locked this way? I've noticed this same problem with an earlier release
version, too. After all, trying the installation again helped, the problem seems
to be random by nature.
Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2005-09-05 09:40:56 UTC 
Are the logs really from a hanging install?

I can see no hang, but error messages that are caused by the fact that device
nodes are created asynchronously by udev while YaST2 cannot know when they will
be there.
Comment 6 Thomas Fehr 2005-09-05 09:45:14 UTC 
Ok, if the machine really hangs randomly I consider this either a kernel 
or a hardware problem. So far I did not get any error reports about hangs 
within yast2-storage related code. 
If the system really locks hard it is unfortunately not any more possible to 
get YaST2 related logs any more since these a stored in memory and copied to
the disk at end of first stage installation. 

Reassigning this to kernel, they should know better what data they need to
detect possible cause for the hang.
Comment 7 Hubert Mantel 2005-09-05 13:04:34 UTC 
Did you try "safe settings" as well? Did you try the various ACPI parameters
such as "acpi=off"?
Comment 8 Olli Lehto 2005-09-05 17:03:40 UTC 
Is "safe settings"=Failsafe (boot choice"?
But the problem is that I've seen the problematic situation a couple of times.
Every time the next try was a success. I just thought that the situation may be
embarrassing when you get into it for the first time.
Comment 9 Hubert Mantel 2005-09-27 11:27:52 UTC 
I still don't see whether a failsafe boot works or not!
Comment 10 Olaf Kirch 2005-11-15 11:47:58 UTC 
No feedback in 1.5 months, closing