Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10855
Installer formats twice
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:55 EDT
If you're using the GUI installer, and you select more packages than you have room for, it first formats the drives before telling you that it's out of room. You then have the options of either selecting fewer packages or adding partitions / making partitions bigger. Even if you do the former, and your partition table / formatting shouldn't need changing, RH 6.2 then proceeds to format everything a second time.
The installer functionality was never meant to allow the user to go back and change the package selection once the filesystems are formatted, so this is a bug in the installer. Future versions will make this restriction more apparent to the user.
Test lab - please verify this bug is not present in latest internal version.
the current internal fix isn't resolved correctly ... in TUI: 1) Displays a dialog "You don't have enough space, required: xxx Mb" 2) Press OK, install continues 3) window "ready to install, the log file will be in /tmp" ... 4) Press OK to continue 5) Traceback GUI: 1) Displays a dialog "You don't have enough space ..." 2) Press OK , install continues ... 3) window "ready to install, the log file will be in /tmp" ... 4) Press OK to continue 5) goto step 1 ; endless cycle
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Beta-5
*** Bug 12007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 12106 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just to make sure no data is lost: the main concern of bug 12007 (now resolved as a duplicate of this bug) is that when / is the partition that doesn't have enough space, the warning dialog (both TUI and GUI installs) doesn't show "/", it just has blanks (empty space). Thus, the user doesn't know what partition is too full. Please make sure that's part of this fix. Thanks!
This defect has been re-classified as MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release
*** Bug 13658 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 13904 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Would be hard to fix and does not cause any damage.
Are you guys mad? You're not going to fix this? Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to spend 10 mins selecting packages, then be told "you need 5 more Mb free". Fine, so you use the fully enabled "BACK" button to go back and deselect some poxy 10Mb package. Upon going forward and re-starting the install it crashes after "preparing for install" Are we talking about the same bug? There have been so many bugs logged in this area that I'm afraid some serious ones, e.g. this one, have been marked as duplicates.
We are late in the development cycle and after discussion of the installer team this would take considerable time to address properly. I understand it is frustrating to hit this bug and we will definately reevaluate how to handle it in future releases. There are unfortunately more critical bugs which can be more easily fixed which are taking our development time. We never said this wasn't a bug, btw.
There are two bugs here. One we will fix, one we won't. The main problem you're seeing is that the loopback filesystem isn't unmounted when going back from a failed attempt at a transaction. This is the critical bug, and it will be fixed. The other bug is that it keeps formatting the drives every time you start an install attempt. This won't be fixed, sorry.
*** Bug 12392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This has been fixed internally (I think I got all of the cases, finally).