I've been burned again and whenever it happens [though infrequenly] I
often burn many hours rediscovering the probem. Then I'm too tired to
write a note to this list. 8-( Anyhow, it turns out that in some
situations, existing partitions that are not replaced can cause SI to
crash and burn. In this latest case, I had an existing partition on a
disk that wasn't part of my new configuration. Unfortunaly, that
partion had a name of '/' which conflicted with the real '/' on a
difference partition. SI died a very horrible and ugly death and the
only way I was able to find it was to first put an exit in my
autoinstall script right before it calls systemconfiguration and then
once the installation hit that point, use the console to try and debug
the situation. If I manually removed the offending partition with
parted, I could than manually run systemconfigurator and everyone was
happy. This is very subtle and I suspect those not that familiar with
the code and/or perl, will be hopelessly lost.
Shouldn't systemconfigurator realize that partitions not part of the
autoconfiguration script should be ignored? I'm sure part of the
problem is the loose rather than tight coupling between SI and SC, but...
Am I the only one who has been burned by this? Does anyone else see
this as a pretty serious problem? It should at least be possible to
issue some sort of warning. The thing that makes this particularly
nasty is it's NOT an error which means the autoinstall completes, the
system reboots and you're left with a grub error on the console. holy
confusion batman!!!
-mark
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