Bug 1116659 - unable to set mount point because the field is grayed out
Summary: unable to set mount point because the field is grayed out
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: RejectedBlocker
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-07 00:28 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2015-04-14 19:23 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-04-14 19:23:46 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
anaconda.log (15.54 KB, text/x-log)
2014-07-07 00:39 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
program.log (27.48 KB, text/x-log)
2014-07-07 00:40 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
storage.log (322.70 KB, text/plain)
2014-07-07 00:40 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details

Description Chris Murphy 2014-07-07 00:28:29 UTC
Description of problem:
Manual Partitioning, click on an existing partition I'd like to reuse, but the Mount Point field is grayed out. So it can't be used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-21.46-2.fc21.x86_64
python-blivet-0.60-1.fc21.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get to Manual Partitioning
2. Click on "Unknown" to reveal all existing partitions.
3a. Click on Unknown(sda4) 95MiB partition
3b. Click on Unknown(sda5) 1024MiB partition

Actual results:
Mount Point field is grayed out I can't click on it, for either partition I've tried clicking on.

Expected results:
I should be able to click on the Mount Point field.


Additional info:
I'm allowed to check the Reformat checkbox, and upon clicking Update Settings, I get a yellow banner at the bottom that says "Please enter a valid mountpoint." Yet I can't do that.


[root@rawhide tmp]# blkid | grep sda
/dev/sda1: LABEL="EFI" UUID="1A49-15F4" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="a9cdcd8a-f6e1-4f70-898d-e93e1c3eabfd" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="3dab895a-7233-3172-8b3c-d6749504b285" LABEL="Recovery HD" TYPE="hfsplus" PARTLABEL="Apple boot" PARTUUID="e4d640f6-0c24-439d-b0cd-40b8057ec0e1" 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="Rawhide2" UUID="f857c336-b8f5-4f5d-9500-a705ee1b6977" UUID_SUB="2cb80a64-60fe-410d-a427-99257f067154" TYPE="btrfs" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="e9a1e084-b422-462c-bc58-1e65729f85c2" 
/dev/sda2: PARTLABEL="Fugue" PARTUUID="9a5448a1-d9dd-48af-9655-05f7a1bf2de8" 
/dev/sda4: PARTLABEL="Apple HFS/HFS+" PARTUUID="34f03030-9e83-4c4c-986a-b9f87cf2758b" 
/dev/sda5: PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="d5516421-d9a9-4908-8e86-a83f850906a4"

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2014-07-07 00:29:50 UTC
Proposing as a beta release blocker bug: "When using the custom partitioning flow, the installer must be able to Assign mount points to existing storage volumes."

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2014-07-07 00:39:10 UTC
OK interesting. Both partitions are unformatted. I formatted one HFS+ and the other ext4, rebooted and reran the installer, and now it lets me set a mount point for them. If I wipefs them, reboot and rerun the installer, I can't.

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2014-07-07 00:39:55 UTC
Created attachment 915931 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 4 Chris Murphy 2014-07-07 00:40:12 UTC
Created attachment 915932 [details]
program.log

Comment 5 Chris Murphy 2014-07-07 00:40:47 UTC
Created attachment 915933 [details]
storage.log

Comment 6 Chris Murphy 2014-09-06 20:56:01 UTC
Also I'm unable to change Device Type, so I can't make an unformatted partition into an LVM PV, or a BTRFS device. Even if I check reformat as ext4, Update Settings so the mountpoint is added, I then still can't change Device Type as it's grayed out.

anaconda-21.48.4-1.fc21.i686
python-blivet-0.62-1.fc21.noarch

Comment 7 David Lehman 2014-09-24 16:25:58 UTC
Why would you expect to be able to set a mountpoint for a device that contains no mountable filesystem?

(In reply to Chris Murphy from comment #6)
> Also I'm unable to change Device Type, so I can't make an unformatted
> partition into an LVM PV, or a BTRFS device. Even if I check reformat as

This is working as designed.

> ext4, Update Settings so the mountpoint is added, I then still can't change
> Device Type as it's grayed out.

It's an existing device. How do you expect us to change its type?

Comment 8 Kamil Páral 2014-09-24 16:49:41 UTC
Discussed in 2014-09-24 Blocker Review meeting [1]. Rejected as a blocker, because this seems to be an oversight from the reported - the filesystem drop down menu needs to be switched to a mountable filesystem first, and only then the mount point is active. Improving the UI could of course help, but it's not a blocker. Please re-propose if there's more to this bug than it seemed.

[1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2014-09-24/

Comment 9 David Shea 2015-04-14 19:23:46 UTC
Closing based on comment 7


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