Partition editor seems to be missing options (manual partitioning scheme)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TurnKey Linux |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Alon Swartz | ||
| 2009.02-hardy-x86 |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
(submitted in the forums by volkswagner: http://
I am trying to install the MediaWiki version. I wanted to do a manual partition scheme.
The partition editor seems to be missing options. When ever I select an existing parition, it won't allow me to edit the partition. I always get the same erro, "no root file system selected".
In past installs of various Ubuntu versions I recall more choices during the partition editor. Normally I can choose mount point, create partition, delete, etc.
Is Turnkey only set up to use the entire disk? No manual paritioning allowed?
The only choices during manual parition setup are:
* Guided Partioning
* Help
* Undo changes to partitions
* Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
| Changed in turnkeylinux: | |
| assignee: | nobody → alonswartz |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Alon Swartz (alonswartz) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in turnkeylinux: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Alon Swartz (alonswartz) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in turnkeylinux: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This issue has been solved (finally! took me ages to track down the bug), and a fix commited to the turnkeylinux code repository and package archive.
Version: di-live-
The fix will be included in all new appliances, and current appliances can update using APT.
For those interested, the bug was due to IFS issues.
- the user choice (e.g. partition) would not match up internally with the available choices so the choice key could not be returned.
- by default it would return the RET itself, which would result in a plugin error.
- the plugin error would result in ask_user returning a failed exitcode
- which in turn would result in a "No root filesystem" message.
- bottom line: whitespaces