Bug 443184

Summary:	bad error message and behaviour when installing on USB disk with mounted partition
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Peter F. Patel-Schneider 2008-04-19 01:23:48 UTC

Description of problem:

Poor error reporting and behaviour when install USB disk has mounted partition

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Version in Fedora 9 Preview

How reproducible:

Always (3 of 3)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start machine with Fedora-9-Preview live on USB stick, install disk in
external USB enclose containing a previous Fedora install (boot and LVM partitions)
2. Note that install disk boot partition is mounted.
3. Install to hard drive, using defaults throughout.
  
Actual results:

Error box with: An error occurred trying to format sdb1. ...
Disk has been modified.

Expected results:

Error box saying something like:  Can't install over mounted partition.
No change to disk.

Additional info:

Not a big problem, but the error message is soo generic!

Can proceed by just unmounting the partition and starting install from the
beginning.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:41:31 UTC

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Peter F. Patel-Schneider 2008-09-25 16:21:02 UTC

This behaviour is still happening with
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/10-Beta-Spins/i686/
     F10-Beta-i686-Live.iso        as of 24 Sept 7:26pm EDT

Still low priority, I guess

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:13:01 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 Andy Lindeberg 2009-07-09 19:56:28 UTC

Our storage code has been almost completely rewritten since this bug was filed. Can you test with F11 and let us know if the error message is still vague? If so, we're doing a rewrite of error messages very soon, so let me know and I'll make sure it gets looked at.

Comment 5 Peter F. Patel-Schneider 2009-07-10 11:24:29 UTC

The conditions for this bug are rather specific, so I may not be able to recreate the environment for a while, but I'll try to test this out as soon as possible.

Comment 6 Peter F. Patel-Schneider 2009-07-15 23:55:55 UTC

This is fixed.

The storage code helpfully unmounts the file systems before attempting to install.

Comment 7 Chris Lumens 2009-07-16 13:54:35 UTC

Thank you for retesting.