Bug 185086 – Filesystems in /etc/fstab that don't exist shouldn't cause install failure

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Bug 185086 - Filesystems in /etc/fstab that don't exist shouldn't cause install failure

Summary:	Filesystems in /etc/fstab that don't exist shouldn't cause install failure

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Chris Lumens
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Blocks:	FC6Target
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Reported:	2006-03-10 10:02 EST by Andrew Overholt
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-06-08 11:26:46 EDT
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Description Andrew Overholt 2006-03-10 10:02:25 EST

Description of problem:
I somehow had an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/sda2 -> /media/ipod and when I
tried to upgrade from FC4 -> FC5test3, the installation process exited because
/dev/sda2 didn't exist.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC5test3 anaconda

How reproducible:
Always (?)
  
Actual results:
Installation exited.

Expected results:
Installation does not exit.

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Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-03-13 13:56:15 EST

What exactly was the line in /etc/fstab?

Comment 2 Andrew Overholt 2006-03-13 15:01:12 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> What exactly was the line in /etc/fstab?

/dev/sda2               /media/ipod             vfat    user    1 1

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2006-03-13 15:11:21 EST

You really probably also want something like noauto in the options.

We'll try to clean up this handling some for FC6

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2006-05-22 14:26:35 EDT

Chris -- note the trickiness in that someone could have, eg, /usr not show up
and we really don't want to do the upgrade then.  Which is why we've kept to the
behavior we currently have.

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2006-06-08 11:26:46 EDT

We should be doing a better job with this in FC6.  It should now catch error on
non-Linux filesystems and display a warning dialog.  You can then choose to
ignore the warning and upgrade without mounting, or reboot.

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