Bug 141346 - qmkbootdisk fails without adequate error reporting
Summary: qmkbootdisk fails without adequate error reporting
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qmkbootdisk
Version: 2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Than Ngo
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-30 16:21 UTC by Phil Schaffner
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-11-09 16:01:31 UTC
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Description Phil Schaffner 2004-11-30 16:21:59 UTC
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Description of problem:
Tried FC2 qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-12.  Fails to make a working boot disk (as
might be expected due to size of kernel) but does not generate obvious
warning of failure.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-12

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run qmkbootdisk as root from konsole.
2. Run qmkbootdisk from KDE menu as a user.
3.
    

Actual Results:  Runs with output to the terminal when run from the
command line as root, but writes the disk anyway:

# qmkbootdisk
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.m20429/initrd.img': No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
20+0 records in
20+0 records out

When run from the KDE menu, allows user to select output device and
kernel version, immediately goes to 100% and terminates, without
prompting for root password, with no error.


Expected Results:  Should warn the user that the kernel is too big for
the output device in a GUI window, and should request root password if
required.  [An option to generate an ISO image would be useful, as
mkbootdisk can do that, but that's an RFE.]

Additional info:
If not fixed, this component should be removed.  The naive user could
believe [s]he has generated a boot disk when none was produced.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2005-04-26 15:04:50 UTC
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for
security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please
reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a
security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or
in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.

Comment 2 Phil Schaffner 2005-11-09 16:01:31 UTC
As qmkbootdisk seems to have disappeared from Fedora, NOTABUG seems to be the
appropriate status.


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