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Bug 148046 - LiveCD-Installer crashes all other Partitons when selecting JFS
Summary: LiveCD-Installer crashes all other Partitons when selecting JFS
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 All
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Installer
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Reported: 2006-09-18 04:57 UTC by Stefan Pichler
Modified: 2006-12-16 20:13 UTC (History)
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Attachments
installprofile.xml & installer.log.failed (installprofile.xml-installer.log.failed.tar.gz,3.68 KB, application/x-gzip)
2006-09-21 06:37 UTC, Johan Straarup
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Description Stefan Pichler 2006-09-18 04:57:30 UTC
The Partitioning-tool on the installer on the LiveCD 2006.1 crashes all other Partitions when selecting a JFS-Partition to format.
In my case he crashes a NTFS-Partition (Pri-1)of my Windows-Installation on the same S-ATA Harddisk (a single Disk in System). The Formatting of the other Linux-Partitions (Pri-2 to Pri-4) doesnt seems to work.
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-09-18 05:07:22 UTC
Uhh, what? Can you attach the /var/log/install.log.failed and /tmp/installprofile.xml from the failed install?
Comment 2 Stefan Pichler 2006-09-18 05:14:13 UTC
i'm sorry, but i cant attach it, i rebootet the machine in panic, and the harddisk was pretty plain after that try.
You see the Problem on the graphical Partitioner bevor write down the Partitons to Harddisk - in the moment you create Pri-4 and select to format it with JFS, the whole Partitions optical "goes away"...
Comment 3 Johan Straarup 2006-09-21 06:37:09 UTC
Created attachment 97637 [details]
installprofile.xml & installer.log.failed

I have experienced similar behavior from the gtk installer yesterday!
At the partition-tab I chose mount points and forgot to select which partitions I wanted to format. Also I did touch the resize slider on the /boot partition, but set it back to the default state afterwards, I think.
The result: Installer crashes and 7 partitions are gone.
Did manage to restore the partition table with the application testdisk!
I have attached the "installprofile.xml" and "installer.log.failed" files as requested.
Comment 4 Stefan Pichler 2006-09-22 14:56:15 UTC
I'm now shure the Problem at GTK-Installer is on the AMD64 (my 1st fault) and also at the X86-Version of the Installer-ISO 2006.1 (my 2nd fault two days ago). Again the Installer crashes 4 Partitions out of my Disk. I'm happy to do this on my Test-Machine this time..
imho: If you choose to change any thing (Format-Option, Size, Mountpoint) of the created Partition, you can (in my case everytime) crash your Partitiontable.
Comment 5 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-16 20:13:04 UTC
I'm not sure how to actually fix this problem, so I'm not going to. I've added a big warning message that displays when the partitioning screen loads.