https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366856 Summary: yast2 repair tries to "repair" a nonexistent partition table Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: casualprogrammer@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Beta-Customer After clean install from alpha2 DVD and update from factory, yast2 repair suggests "Repair Partition Table of /dev/mmcblk" The message box states: "No Partition table was found for hard disk /dev/mmcblk. If at least one partition should exist for /dev/mmcblk, select one of the following repair methods. If no partition ever existed on this hard disk, skip the repair." While this text is perfectly correct, it will probably exceed the average users reasoning. As explained in Bug 364365, there are cases where no partition table is required and Windows-XP will even refuse to touch the media if a partition table is found. I therefore suggest to either suppress the message for these cases or else add some comment to that end to the help text, which is pretty good. Even better, add something like "If in doubt, skip this step", as most people tend to not read help files before something is broken. Notebook: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Si 1520 Graphics: Fujitsu Siemens Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Monitor: QUANTADISPLAY LCD Monitor 1280x800@60Hz Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection Sound: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller Desktop: gnome2-SuSE-10.3-163 YaST GUI: yast2-qt-2.16.31-5 OS: openSUSE 11.0 (i586) Alpha2 VERSION = 11.0 Kernel: 2.6.24-6-default rpm -qa | grep yast | sort autoyast2-installation-2.16.7-12 yast2-2.16.30-6 yast2-add-on-2.16.1-21 yast2-apparmor-2.16.0-10 yast2-backup-2.16.1-37 yast2-bootloader-2.16.5-22 yast2-ca-management-2.16.5-10 yast2-control-center-2.16.0-29 yast2-control-center-gnome-2.13.2-159 yast2-control-center-qt-2.16.0-29 yast2-core-2.16.38-4 yast2-country-2.16.11-8 yast2-country-data-2.16.11-8 yast2-fingerprint-reader-2.16.2-36 yast2-firewall-2.15.8-68 yast2-ftp-server-2.15.9-88 yast2-hardware-detection-2.16.1-15 yast2-inetd-2.15.1-105 yast2-installation-2.16.19-10 yast2-irda-2.15.1-155 yast2-iscsi-client-2.16.5-11 yast2-kerberos-client-2.16.4-7 yast2-ldap-2.16.0-6 yast2-ldap-client-2.16.9-10 yast2-ldap-server-2.15.5-137 yast2-libyui-2.16.38-4 yast2-mail-2.16.0-22 yast2-metapackage-handler-0.7.3-47 yast2-mouse-2.16.0-46 yast2-ncurses-2.16.18-3 yast2-ncurses-pkg-2.16.3-8 yast2-network-2.16.23-4 yast2-nfs-client-2.15.0-85 yast2-nfs-server-2.15.5-31 yast2-nis-client-2.16.0-56 yast2-ntp-client-2.16.4-12 yast2-online-update-2.16.7-7 yast2-online-update-frontend-2.16.7-7 yast2-packager-2.16.22-6 yast2-pam-2.16.0-57 yast2-perl-bindings-2.16.3-7 yast2-pkg-bindings-2.16.15-6 yast2-printer-2.16.8-5 yast2-profile-manager-2.16.0-47 yast2-qt-2.16.31-5 yast2-qt-pkg-2.16.27-6 yast2-registration-2.16.0-48 yast2-repair-2.16.4-24 yast2-restore-2.16.0-48 yast2-runlevel-2.16.0-48 yast2-samba-client-2.16.2-24 yast2-samba-server-2.16.0-60 yast2-scanner-2.15.5-103 yast2-schema-2.15.0-180 yast2-security-2.15.1-85 yast2-slp-2.15.0-92 yast2-sound-2.16.3-7 yast2-storage-2.16.11-17 yast2-storage-lib-2.16.11-17 yast2-sudo-2.16.0-22 yast2-support-2.15.3-75 yast2-sysconfig-2.15.3-118 yast2-tftp-server-2.14.0-165 yast2-theme-openSUSE-2.16.13-12 yast2-trans-en_US-2.16.1-4 yast2-transfer-2.16.1-30 yast2-trans-stats-2.15.0-63 yast2-tune-2.15.7-86 yast2-tv-2.16.3-29 yast2-update-2.16.4-26 yast2-users-2.16.14-4 yast2-x11-2.15.11-93 yast2-xml-2.16.0-33 yast2-ycp-ui-bindings-2.16.37-5 -- 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.