https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |martin@gnummep.co.uk ------- Comment #1 from chrubis@novell.com 2007-01-29 05:16 MST ------- Please attach y2logs from this installation. If you are in doubt please follow: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST Thanks! -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |fehr@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ------- Comment #4 from me@shadsterling.com 2007-02-19 12:08 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=119992) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=119992&action=view) Logs copied from /var/log/YaST2/ (1/3) Logs copied from /var/log/YaST2/ (1/3) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ------- Comment #6 from me@shadsterling.com 2007-02-19 12:12 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=119994) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=119994&action=view) Loges saved with Shift-F8 in the Qt UI (3/3) Loges saved with Shift-F8 in the Qt UI (3/3) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

From a first glance it looks as if parted is not able to initialize a partition on disk /dev/hda on your system. No idea why that happens. There is no error message displayed by parted nor is the return code of the

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |me@shadsterling.com ------- Comment #8 from fehr@novell.com 2007-02-20 03:56 MST ------- All three logs are identical, first on is a zip file last two are compressed tar archives. parted command nonzero. Therefore YaST2 assumes that initialisation of partition table was succesfull and the following creation of a partition fails. As already said I have no idea why this is not working on your system. To my knowledge there are no reports for 10.2 with such a behaviour. Is there something special set for your BIOS on hda (partition table protection)? Please try the following: - Boot the rescue system of SL 10.2 - log in as root - execute the command "parted -s /dev/hda unit cyl print" - if parted tells about "unrecognised disk label", execute the command "parted -s /dev/hda mklabel msdos" - execute the command "parted -s /dev/hda unit cyl print" again and check if the message about "unrecognised disk label" is gone. - please provide the content of /var/log/boot.msg and the output of the command "dmesg" -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

From the attached files I cannot see something that would help me understanding

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ------- Comment #10 from fehr@novell.com 2007-02-21 04:03 MST ------- Meanwhile your disk contains a valid partition table even in the first call to "parted ... print" Did you create this partition table manually? this problem. Could you attach the y2log containing the new failure during installation? So far I could only assume that there is some hardware problem (probably controller or disk drive). Was the machine running stable in this configuration before you tried your linux install? If Yes with what os? -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ------- Comment #12 from me@shadsterling.com 2007-02-21 10:34 MST ------- We may be going off topic with some of this. I did not create a partition table manually. Before posting here I tried to write a blank partition table with cfdisk (booted to rescue), but that didn't resolve the problem. I did get a prompt from parted, each time. This machine has been out of use for a bit, it's previous state is unclear. It passes every hardware test I know to run (memtest, badblocks, "The Troubleshooter" suite). Are there tests which are particularly good at detecting the sort of problem you suspect? The problems I've had after getting past the disk label error haven't been entirely consistent, but are generally failures to find files on the DVD and lockups while installing. I thought there might be disc-related problem, so this morning I tried installing from the CDs. Now the GUI has locked up at package ifplugd-0.28-41.i586.rpm, and on vconsole 4 I find this: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000055 EIP: 0060:[<c01727bb>] Tainted: G U VLI EFLAGS: 00210282 (2.6.18.2-34-default #1) EIP is at do_path_lookup+0x167/0x25f eax: f30cfed4 ebx: f0df2000 ecx: 00000000 sdx: df234f20 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process: y2base (pid: 3015, ti=f30ce000 task=f5537180 task.ti: f30ce000) Call Trace: getname+0x59/0xb0 __user_walk_fd+0x2f/0x40 vfs_stat_fd+0x19/0x40 sys_stat64+0xf/0x23 do_page_fault+0x27d/0x507 vfs_read+0x11e/0x15d copy_to_user+0x31/0x48 sys_newuname+0x2d/0x36 syscall_call+0x7/0xb EIP: [<c01727bb>] do_path_lookup+0x167/0x25f SS:ESP 0068:f30cfed4 and that's now scrolled off the screen by repititions of "VFS: busy inodes on changed media". I have not changed the CD, and the GUI has not asked. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ------- Comment #14 from me@shadsterling.com 2007-02-22 14:30 MST ------- I'd already tried install with safe options before posting, and had the same problem. Today I tried to install onto a different machine, with default options, and it completed successfully. So, if that was a problem with faulty hardware, I think the thing the installer could possibly do better is detect this kind of fault and report it to the user. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ionm@pobox.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ionm@pobox.com Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX | ------- Comment #16 from ionm@pobox.com 2007-04-22 10:53 MST ------- I fail to see how this can be a hardware problem. Here's why. Computer 1 - I have been running SUSE 10.2 for several months. I decided to add a small FAT16 partition for MSDSOS. I used the MSDSOS fdisk utility to delete all partitions and create the FAT16. I formatted under MSDOS, and was able to boot into it. Then I started the 10.2 install and got the above error. I tried all the suggested fixes. I even used "dd" to write zeros over the first few hundred sectors. I successfully installed WinXP and it ran flawlessly. I even tried the XP FIXMBR from the recovery console. I too thought it was a hardware problem. To verify it I slipped the drive into... Computer 2 (different maker different controller) - Same exact problem with installing 10.2. Must be the drive I thought. Then I tried installing SUSE 9.3 on this computer and it worked just fine. Aha! I thought, I must have cleared the problem. No. When I tried 10.2 it errored out again. The only common element on the failures was the 10.2 installation software. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ------- Comment #18 from ionm@pobox.com 2007-04-23 23:41 MST ------- Thanks for the quick response. I'll be very happy to oblige. Where would I find the y2log files? -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ------- Comment #20 from ionm@pobox.com 2007-04-24 09:50 MST ------- That's going to be difficult since the problem occurs before the drive is partitioned or has a file system on it. There is only one hard drive, the CD drive has the installation CD in it and the only other available device is a floppy. Is there any way I can re-direct the log file output to the floppy? -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 ionm@pobox.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|ionm@pobox.com | ------- Comment #22 from ionm@pobox.com 2007-04-26 00:20 MST ------- Thanks for the help. I solved the problem by partitioning with Knoppix and only formatting with the installation software. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770 User IvanIvanov@vistatec.ie added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239770#c24 Ivan Ivanov changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |IvanIvanov@vistatec.ie Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED --- Comment #24 from Ivan Ivanov 2008-08-14 04:16:22 MDT --- Closing bug. -- 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.