[Bug 224516] New: Failure during creation of partitions
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224516 Summary: Failure during creation of partitions Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: RC 3 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mmichna@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: chuller@novell.com OtherBugsDependingO 215208 nThis: During the creation of the partitions I got a pop up whicht tells me: --8<-- Error Failure occured during following action: Creating partition /dev/hda5 System error code was: -1008 -->8-- The machine had NTFS on the harddisk and I took the proposal made by YaST. -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #1 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-11-29 08:35 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=107416) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=107416&action=view) screenshot of the pop up -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #2 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-11-29 08:36 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=107417) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=107417&action=view) complete /var/log/YaST2 -- 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=224516 mhorvath@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=224516 olh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mmichna@novell.com ------- Comment #3 from olh@novell.com 2006-11-29 09:06 MST ------- hda5 was on-disk, hda5 was not known by the kernel. parted return code was appearently 1. Its not recreateable by running the commands manually. you better try to reproduce it. -- 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=224516 mmichna@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mmichna@novell.com | ------- Comment #4 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-11-30 05:10 MST ------- Just reproduced it with RC4. -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #5 from aj@novell.com 2006-11-30 06:31 MST ------- Can you do a new installation without ntfsresize - does that one work? -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #7 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-11-30 06:44 MST ------- Error: Can't have overlapping partiotions -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #10 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-11-30 07:51 MST ------- If I restart the installation (by rebooting) then I get: --8<-- Error Failure occured during following action: Setting type of partition /dev/hda6 to 82 System error code was: -1012 -->8-- -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #11 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-11-30 07:51 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=107629) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=107629&action=view) screenshot of the popup -- 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=224516 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mmichna@novell.com ------- Comment #13 from fehr@novell.com 2006-12-07 06:00 MST ------- So far I do not have any explanation for this. Apparently parted fails to tell the kernel about the new partition or the kernel refuses to recognize it. The partition hda5 gets created on disk but the kernel does not recognize the new partition and it never shows up in /proc/partitions. As long as the kernel does not know about the partition one apparently cannot do anything with it. Therefore YaST2 reports this as an error. Maybe it is caused by ntfsresize running but I cannot really see why. Please try if this is reproducable with RC5. if yes I need access to the machine for further investigations. -- 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=224516 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mmichna@novell.com ------- Comment #15 from fehr@novell.com 2006-12-07 11:03 MST ------- Very strange. I still do not have the slightes idea what might cause this behaviour, so far I did not see something similar. How much time is needed to re-setup the original NTFS so that I can retry myself with various modifications. -- 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=224516 mmichna@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mmichna@novell.com | ------- Comment #16 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-12-08 06:33 MST ------- I didn't measure the time - it takes as long as it takes to install Vista. If you are done with the machine I can install it again and tell you how long it took. -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #17 from fehr@novell.com 2006-12-08 06:45 MST ------- I am not in the office today. If you have the time, please save the y2log files of the machine and reinstall Vista. I will then dump the vista disk image on Monday so that we have a way to reproduce the test without need to manually reinstall Vista multiple times. My current suspicion is that the problems are caused by the resizing of the Vista filesystem. This also would explain why I never saw similar problems so far, since apparently Vista is pretty new. -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #18 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-12-08 07:47 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=108886) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=108886&action=view) complete /var/log/YaST2 -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #19 from mmichna@novell.com 2006-12-08 07:57 MST ------- Just as addittion: I always installed Windows Vista Ultimate -- 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=224516 fdg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fdg@novell.com ------- Comment #20 from fdg@novell.com 2006-12-12 02:55 MST ------- i exactly have the same problem on a new HP Notebook with Windows on it, parted seems to work fine but yast cannot manage that there is an ntfs partition. I shrinked the ntfs before, the rest is the same like everyone discovered. I have an Masterboot record and a parted "list all" as you already know about this issue tell me if you need my log files aso. -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #21 from fehr@novell.com 2006-12-12 03:13 MST ------- Is your Windows XP or Vista? Adding the y2log files would be hrlpful. Do I understand you right that you resized your windows partition not in the same step as you created the linux partitions? -- 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=224516 ------- Comment #22 from fehr@novell.com 2006-12-13 05:39 MST ------- If I kill the process hald-runner the problem goes away.
From strace data I saw that hald-runner spawns processes that open /dev/hda, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. The problem seems to be highly dependent on timing. If I restart hald in inst-sys the problem vanishes also but after a reboot it is again reproducible.
From my findings it seems to be clear that the exact windows version does not matter. I could also reproduce the problem with a empty ntfs partition spanning the whole disk.
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224516 rmatov101@charter.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rmatov101@charter.net ------- Comment #23 from rmatov101@charter.net 2007-01-27 08:08 MST ------- Comment to #22 you are right Tomas, it has nothing to do with file system. I had the same during installation of the eMachines T6528 system based on Athlon 64, hard disk PATA 160 MB, preinstalled XP. Resizing worked fine, but creation of partition failed. So far I recall, it created swap and very small root partition (2 MB ?), no home. It was custom partitioning in order to leave some space for archive that will be created later. Workaround was to exit Expert Partitioning, switch to terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F2, check what is mounted with mount command, run fdisk, remove small root partition, create root and home, write in partition table, switch back to installation GUI, go back to Expert Partitioning and finish the job. When I was going back to Expert Partitioning it warned me that it can only format existing partitions, not create new. Today I created partition first with cfdisk, then to test YaST, run Expert Partitioner, removed created partition and again created, and it worked fine. -- 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=224516 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #24 from fehr@novell.com 2007-01-30 08:53 MST ------- I changed libstorage now to send the signal SIGSTOP to hald just before parted gets called and sending the signal SIGCONT just after the parted call. This should prevent hald from becoming active while parted is still running. The changes go into SL 10.3 and SLES10 SP1. -- 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.
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