F18-Beta installer - Aaaargh!

[David Lehman]

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 19:39 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:30:53 -0600, David Lehman wrote:
> 
> > > It defaults to automatic partitioning, complaining about not enough free
> > > space. I've searched for a way to tell it that I want to reuse an existing
> > > logical partition.  One that has a Rawhide->F18-Alpha on it. Somehow I
> > 
> > The way to tell it this is to activate the "I want to use custom
> > partitioning instead" checkbutton and thus enter custom partitioning by
> > clicking the "Reclaim" button. 
> 
> Which is what I've done. It's confusing nevertheless, since the dialog
> refers to shrinking partitions/volumes, whereas the user does not want
> to do that, but simply wants to reuse existing partitions/volumes. Clicking
> a button "Reclaim space" sounds weird in that context.
> 
> Why can't the checkbox not be turnt into a "Manual partitioning" button
> that one would click instead of the Reclaim button? Afterall, the section
> is titled "Manual partitioning", too.
> 
> > Never has there been a feature of
> > automatic partitioning that said "do automatic partitioning but reuse
> > this ___ device."
> 
> No, but in my case it still refers to automatic partitioning _after_ I've
> completed the manual partitioning.
>  
> > > needed to click "Continue" to reach an error dialog that again tells me
> > > there is not enough free space and that the installer will help me, so I
> > > tell it I don't need help, I want to partition myself, but I cannot escape
> > > that dialog other than with the "Reclaim space" button. Could be
> > > dangerous, but I take the risk and click it after changing the
> > > partitioning which defaults to "LVM", which should be irrelevant when I
> > > partition myself.
> > 
> > It is not irrelevant if you plan to create any new devices in custom.
> > That same device/scheme chooser sets the default type for new devices
> > you create as well as the default automatic partitioning scheme.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I reach the partitioning screen, where assigning mount points is everything
> > > other than intuitive compared with old Anaconda. Partition names are not
> > > displayed anywere, just labels, mount points and names of existing installations.
> > > It needs many mouse-clicks to open existing installations (this is a multi-boot
> > > desktop) and reuse mount-points via the "Apply changes" button. Again,
> > > so far so good, at least I can make the installer use the LUKS encrypted
> > > /home and a few /mnt/… targets. I also tell it to reformat (!) the Root
> > > ext4 partition, but:
> > 
> > You didn't mention what you did in between setting up your custom layout
> > and being on any screen where you might see an error about automatic
> > partitioning.
> 
> It's 100% reproducible here, and just a few minutes ago I might have found out
> that order does matter. I will try to verify that once more.
> My steps are below:
> 
> > > It continues to display a yellow warning about not enough free space for
> > > automatic partitioning. Help! I can revisit the partitioning screen
> > > endlessly without any way to teach it that reformatting means the space
> > > will be available for installation. And why does it still refer to
> > > automatic partitioning, if I tell it that I partition myself?
> > > What am I missing? The begin installation button is greyed out.
> > 
> > How are you leaving the custom partitioning screen? If you click on
> > "Back to destination selection" your changes will not be saved because
> > that indicates that you have changed your mind as opposed to being done.
> > If you click on "Finish Partitioning" your changes will be saved.
> 
> Of course I clicked "Finish Partitioning", as returning to selecting the
> destination would be stupid. Anyway,
> 
> 1. open the Unknown partitions/volumes (don't remember the terminology right
> now), enter secondary password for my LUKS /home, wait for that one to become
> available
> 2. open the _old_ Fedora 18-Alpha x86_64 blahblah entry from which to reuse
> existing mount points
> 3. fill in the mount points, "Apply Changes" for each of /home, /home/sharedhome,
> /mnt/storage, /mnt/distimages, then /root last and check the Reformat checkbox
> 4. With "Finish Partitioning", I return to the main screen and see both a
> yellow warning at the bottom as well as a yellow exclamation mark behind the
> Storage field referring to the not enough space problem. Revisiting the 
> manual partitioning does not help either.
> 
> These steps I've tried multiple times to confirm them.
> Roughly in an hour or so I'll revisit a different order in which to add the
> mount points, as I think leaving out the LUKS /home may be enough for a
> non-reproducer. There will be a report in bugzilla once/if I figure that out.

Maybe you should report a bug. If you do, include a detailed procedure
and the following log files as attachments of MIME type text/plain:

 /tmp/anaconda.log
 /tmp/storage.log
 /tmp/program.log
 /tmp/syslog

Thanks.