[Bug 419889] New: Installation aborts prematurely (close to end)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=419889 Summary: Installation aborts prematurely (close to end) Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: i686 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: lee_matheson@hotmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Community User Installation of openSUSE-11.1 alpha2 aborts prematurely (after the first reboot, but before software repository setup) if during the partitioning setup one creates a mount point (for an extra internal ext3 partition) of: /home/username/data (ie one assigns an existing partition as a directory in ones /home/username directory). The openSUSE installer when creating the user account, does not like the presence of a mount point under /home/username/something when creating the nominal user login. This was observed with KDE-3.5 chosen on 11.1 alpha2 on a 32-bit PC. When this problem occurs, toward the end of the install, the installer, will send one to a KDM user login where one's initially chosen user name is not available, and one can only log in as root. Once logged in as root, the root user can go to YaST, where it is observed that the nominal user account was NOT created by the openSUSE installer. But then with YaST one can then easily create a proper user account for the nominal user, and then then log out as root, and log back in as the new user. This work around appears effective. Presumably one can then set up one's repositories manually. This installer bug also exists on openSUSE-11.0, although I did not write a bug report on 11.0 (I just discovered this on 11.0 also). This bug is more likely to happen to experienced users, who already have a Linux partition, and who wish to keep the existing Linux install, and decide to tell the openSUSE installer to mount their existing (say SuSE-10.3) / and /home as "/home/username/suse103slash" "/hme/username/suse103home". The installer will implement that mount, BUT that implementation does cause the installer to quit early (after properly installing sofware in / ). Because the work around is easy, and because this is likely to happen only to more experienced users, I selected a severity of MINOR. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Andreas Jaeger
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