[Bug 494240] New: Update failed: Cannot mount /var partition
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494240 Summary: Update failed: Cannot mount /var partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: AmigaPhil@ping.be QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Created an attachment (id=285325) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=285325) boot.msg from my current 11.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032600 SUSE/3.0.8-1.1 Firefox/3.0.8 I'm trying to update my openSUSE 11.0 to 11.1 (final), but I got an error saying the /var partition cannot be mounted (and a URL to http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2003/03/fhassel_update_not_possi... ). After I select the update installation mode, the root partition is properly suggested (/dev/sda2). If I click on 'Show all partitions', I can see the other ones, but with an 'unknown Linux' type and unknown architecture. When I click on 'Next' (/dev/sda2 selected), I got the above error. I tried the tip from the support page (above URL), but it didn't help. I've posted many details cat /etc/fstab ls -l /dev/disk/by-id fdisk -l and others, on the openSUSE forum: http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/412332-update-fails-partitions... ==================== Tejun Heo replied (from https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433105#c39 ): Hmmm... the disk being a genuine SCSI device, I doubt the problem you're seeing is the same as this one. Can you please open a new bug report and attach the following information? 1. /var/log/boot.msg and /etc/fstab from 11.0 (please attach them instead of inlining or linking. 2. After booting 11.1 installation media, switch to vt2 (ctrl-alt-f2). Plug in a usb stick and mount it under /mnt (you can see which /dev/sdX node it got assigned by running dmesg). Run the following commands. * save_y2logs /mnt/y2logs.tar.gz; cp /var/log/boot.msg /mnt; dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.out; umount /mnt and attach the resulting files in the bug report. ====================
Hmmm... the disk being a genuine SCSI device
Two of my hard disks are SCSI ones (holding the Linux partitions of my current 11.0 installation). The third one is a IDE (ATA), and holds 2 FAT partions (Windows) and a ext3 partion which is my 11.1 Install Disk (DVD uncompressed to it). Here are the attachments: Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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I'm afraid this is a duplicate of bug #448577 that didn't get fixed in openSUSE 11.1...
I don't have access to this bug, so I can't see the details. Does that mean I won't be able to update my openSUSE 11.0 ? Is there a known workaround for this ? As my 11.1 installation source is on HD, I can replace some files/scripts if they are available. -- Configure bugmail: http://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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As a dirty workaround you might try to disconnect the third hard disk from your computer and run the update again.
That won't (easily) help in my case. That hard disk is the first one seen by the BIOS, the one holding the MBR. I'm trying your patch... -- Configure bugmail: http://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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