openSUSE 12.2 installation failed

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The installation-DVD created from openSUSE-12.2.DVD-x86_64.iso should be OK because <Check Installation Media> did not show
any error.

Trying to install with LVM failed completely. Installation without LVM worked somehow but none of the NTFS-partitions can be accessed - only
the Linux-partitions show up in /etc/fstab. On the other hand grub is willing to boot my Windows 7 installation.

Well, often Linux does not like new computers (OptiPlex 7010 MT with INTEL Core i5-3570). But clonezilla-live-2.0.1-15-i486,
gparted-live-0.14.1-6-i486 and Knoppix 7.0.5 do work.

Can anyone tell me how to get access to the NTFS-partitions?

Details about the problems:

LVM:
The installer did the following:
Create: sda8 156,88 MB boot ext4, sda9 159,58 GB, sda10 7,84 MB, LVM 159,58 GB from sda9 sda10,
with /home 25,00 GB ext4, / 20,00 GB ext4, swap 2,00 GB.
sda4 is the extended partition with sda5, sda6 and sda7.
sda10 sits at the beginning of sda4.
Result:
Failure occurred during following action:
Creating volume group system (159.58 GB) from /dev/sda9 /dev/sda10
System error code was: -4000
echo y | /sbin/pvcreate -ff -M2 ‘/dev/sda10’:
Device /dev/sda10 not found (or ignored by filtering).
Continue despite the error?
<Abort>
It was a real mess to clean the disk because I had to delete sda5, sda6 and sda7 in order to get rid of sda10.

Without LVM:
The installer created sda8 (swap), sda9 (ext4 for /) and sda10 (ext4 for /home).
Error messages during installation:

Perl-Bootloader : 2013-02-01 07:59:26 ERROR: Command ‘/usr/sbin/grub2-install --force --skip-fs-probe /dev/sda
>/var/log/YAST2/y2log_bootloader 2>&1’ failed with code 32512 and output : sh: /usr/bin/grub2-install: No such file or directory.
There was an error generating the initrd (1).
Warning: %post(bootsplash-branding-openSUSE-12.2-11.6.15.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1.
Installing fuse-2.9.0-4.2.2.x86_64.rpm
Additional rpm output :
setting /usr/bin/fusermount to root : trusted 4755. (wrong permissions 4750)
Installing grub2-2.00-1.6.1x86_64.rpm
Additional rpm output :
warning: /etc/default/grub created as /etc/default/grub.rpmnew
Installation finished. No error reported.
Installing vino-3.4.2-3.1.4.x86_64.rpm
Additional rpm output :
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.Extract.gschema.xml: Error on line 5 char 1: <enum id=‘org.freedesktop.Tracker.TrackerVerbosity’> not (yet) defined. This entire file has been ignored.
Then quite a lot of messages of this type followed.

After automatic reboot:
MUX infocall failed
But the rest including automatic update worked.

Automatic restart because of the updates:
“Failed to start Show Plymouth Reboot Screen. See ‘systemctl status plymouth-reboot.service’ for details.”
The system hangs.
After switching the computer off and restarting it openSUSE automatically booted and did the remaining stuff of the installation.

Now I can boot Windows 7 as well as openSUSE - but openSUSE does not have access to the NTFS-partitions.

Please help.

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On 2013-02-05 13:56, REUMI wrote:

> Trying to install with LVM failed completely.

I consider LVM a thing for experts.

> Installation without LVM
> worked somehow but none of the NTFS-partitions can be accessed - only
> the Linux-partitions show up in /etc/fstab.

So add them. Do you want help with that?

One detail: in order to copy here computer generated messages and
commands, please use code tags or it is not readable.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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It’s normal to have these during installation. Installation order of individual packages is such that grub2 is installed very late, but many packages try to update bootloader in their installation scripts. It is not pretty but harmless.

Otherwise without at least “fdisk -l” in each case it is absolutely impossible to say anything. I also do not understand the point of having 7MB partition. I do not remember minimal PV size, but it could be well too small for it.

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And, please post this output between CODE(the # in the editor) tags.

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> Trying to install with LVM failed completely. Installation without LVM worked somehow but none of the NTFS-partitions can be accessed - only
> the Linux-partitions show up in /etc/fstab. On the other hand grub is willing to boot my Windows 7 installation.

LVM is not for mouting NTFS partitions…

> but openSUSE does not have access to the NTFS-partitions.

You can mount the in /etc/fstab like this:


/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HN-M101MBB_S2R8J9BB808817-part4 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,comment=systemd.automount,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=zh_TW.UTF-8 0 0

It also can be done during installation, so seems you miss it.

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In previous versions of openSUSE the entries in /etc/fstab for all the harddisk-partitions have been created automatically during the
installation process. And what is not in there can not be mounted.

Thanks for the code-example for fstab. That worked to get access to the partitions. Where can I find a description of the parameters?

Then I found out, that Dolphin knows about all the partitions. Where does it get the information from?

It is good to hear that lots of the error messages during the installation are not relevant. Than I can now get QtCreator and mySQL
to work.

Thanks to all of you for the help.

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This version too, but seems your NFS play…you know

…These parameters are from ntfs-3g package. you can check its documentations if you would like to.

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Of course is can. It just is not mounted by default when system boots.

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On 2013-02-06 14:26, REUMI wrote:
>
> In previous versions of openSUSE the entries in /etc/fstab for all the
> harddisk-partitions have been created automatically during the
> installation process. And what is not in there can not be mounted.

Not via traditional mount, but the desktops may do it in another manner.

> Thanks for the code-example for fstab. That worked to get access to the
> partitions. Where can I find a description of the parameters?

man fstab. All “traditional” Linux parts, and many new parts, are
documented as man pages, some as info pages.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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After some struggle I managed to create the entries for the ntfs-partitions in /etc/fstab and they work.

But I do have a problem with access rights:
The man-page umask(2) claims umask=0644 means rw- r-- r–
openSUSE 12.2: umask=0022 creates rwx r-x r-x
This seems to be quite contrary. But things like S_IRUSR don’t say anything to me, so I might have got this wrong.

The main thing is: I don’t wont the SUID-Bit to be set.
Where should I look to understand this?

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This is a sample line from my /etc/fstab for my NTFS. Note my fmask and dmask settings.


/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31500341AS_9VS14DG6-part1 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

Here is the openSUSE wiki page for NTFS: SDB:NTFS - openSUSE Wiki

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On 2013-02-11 21:26, REUMI wrote:

> The main thing is: I don’t wont the SUID-Bit to be set.
> Where should I look to understand this?

These are my notes:


# fmask=0113,dmask=0022 yields these permissions:
# -rw-rw-r--   files
# drwxr-xr-x   directories/
#
# fmask=0117,dmask=0027
# -rw-rw----   files
# drwxr-x---   directories/

# Octal permissions (man chmod):
# UserID * 4    + GroupID * 2   + sticky * 1
# Read * 4      + Write * 2     + Execute * 1   ( owner )
# Read * 4      + Write * 2     + Execute * 1   ( group )
# Read * 4      + Write * 2     + Execute * 1   ( rest  )

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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Hello! I am new to Linux! I just installed SUSE linux 12.2 and all installation steps run very well. I even updated the software packages online. But after restarting the system the desktop screen looks strange! It appears like a very low-resolution screen so I cannot see anything! I can switch to command panel but I have actually no desktop!

Could you please give me a tip? How you seen such a thing before?

Many Thx,
Majid

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Hello Majid! In order to help diagnose and rectify the problem, please don’t be surprised if I (and others) ask a few
questions.

On 2013-02-12, majid211981 <majid211981@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Hello! I am new to Linux! I just installed SUSE linux 12.2 and all
> installation steps run very well. I even updated the software packages
> online.

So the first question is what hardware do you have (notably which graphics card) and did you install additional drivers?
And exactly how did you update the software packages online (post-install vs Apper/Packagekit vs zypper)?

On 2013-02-12, majid211981 <majid211981@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> But after restarting the system the desktop screen looks
> strange! It appears like a very low-resolution screen so I cannot see
> anything!

It is difficult to understand how you cannot see anything and at the same time see a very low-resolution screen. Can you
be more precise? Does this occur when at the screen where you usually log in? Can you view your virtual consoles (e.g. by
pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1)? Have you tried booting in safe mode?

On 2013-02-12, majid211981 <majid211981@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I can switch to command panel but I have actually no desktop!

Okay so more questions: did you install KDE or GNOME? By control panel, do you mean System Settings or YaST? How can you
view a control panel if you have no desktop?

On 2013-02-12, majid211981 <majid211981@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Could you please give me a tip? How you seen such a thing before?

I am sorry to answer your questions with only more questions, but there’s very little to go on (at least for me) to work
out the cause of your problem.

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I should add that you probably might have had more positive responses to your post if you was posted as a new thread
rather than as a response to an old thread. This thread subject is not pertinent to your problem since your installation
was successful - it seems your problem is associated with the update.

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Many thanks for your precise questions. I try to be more specific:

I installed live KDE from (software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 12.2) for a 64bit PC. No more drivers are installed. The system was working properly and I downloaded packages such as C++ and Fortran compiler. Then I restarted the computer and in the new reboot, I see the desktop screen like a chessboard! I see the mouse pointer as a rather big square which I can move but I don’t see desktop icons! I can switch to command terminal using crl+alt+f1 and have access to Yast. But I don’t know what to do to fix the problem.

If more details are needed, I can explain with details,
Majid

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On 2013-02-12, majid211981 <majid211981@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Many thanks for your precise questions. I try to be more specific:

You are still being coy answering the questions :slight_smile: e.g. - what is your hardware (especially which graphics card?)?
But you have now said…

On 2013-02-12, majid211981 <majid211981@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> The system was working properly and I downloaded
> packages such as C++ and Fortran compiler. Then I restarted the computer
> and in the new reboot, I see the desktop screen like a chessboard!

So this is nothing to do with updating openSUSE but an unfortunate side effect of the way you installed packages `such
as C++ and Fortran compiler’. It sounds like you have borked X Window - dependent packages. So more questions:

  • please list all the packages you installed.
  • precisely how did you install them (e.g. through YaST?).
  • when you did install them, were you warned of any conflicts?

And before you answer - from what you say, it is clear that your problem is not only not relevant to the thread subject
(i.e. `openSUSE 12.2 installation’), but also not relevant to the entire subforum (install/boot), since the problem
arose after installing specific applications - I suggest you repost the problem (in much more detail than you provided)
to the Applications subforum. I don’t say this because I feel strongly about this, but because I want to help you, and
let you know you are much more likely to get helpful advisory input from many more experts (who know much more than me)
if you make it easier for them.

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To be honest, I don’t know which graphic card this computer does have!! It is not one I bought! I am working on it at Uni. How can I figure it out? Is it possible to log into some thing like a safe mode (as in windows)? and then find out more about the hardware details? Concerning software update, I just used the update menu and downloaded the packages I wanted! I guess (as you mentioned) the problem roots in graphic card driver, so I should have installed it in the first boot.

And one more thing, I couldn’t start a new topic in ‘application’ sub-forum because I couldn’t simply find it! It would be great if you tell me how. Sorry for such stupid and naive questions :’(

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On 2013-02-12 12:36, majid211981 wrote:
>
> To be honest, I don’t know which graphic card this computer does have!!
> It is not one I bought! I am working on it at Uni. How can I figure it
> out? Is it possible to log into some thing like a safe mode (as in
> windows)?

Yes, at boot you should see an entry named failsafe or similar.

> and then find out more about the hardware details?

Run “hwinfo --gfxcard” and post the result here inside code tags.

Posting in
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If working in text mode, you can pipe the command into a file and then
paste that in the forum.

> Concerning
> software update, I just used the update menu and downloaded the packages
> I wanted!

That is still not precise enough, but I’m guessing you used apper or
packagekit. Must of us hate that application and remove it.

> And one more thing, I couldn’t start a new topic in ‘application’
> sub-forum because I couldn’t simply find it! It would be great if you
> tell me how. Sorry for such stupid and naive questions :’(

No, the installation-login forum is ok for this question, but you should
have started a new thread and not hook into an old one. It confuses
things, and people that really know how to solve your problem will not
see it. If you search, several people got that chessboard display after
the first update. For example, a quick google search:

View this thread here

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:26:01 GMT, REUMI <REUMI@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:

>
>After some struggle I managed to create the entries for the
>ntfs-partitions in /etc/fstab and they work.
>
>But I do have a problem with access rights:
>The man-page umask(2) claims umask=0644 means rw- r-- r–
>openSUSE 12.2: umask=0022 creates rwx
>r-x r-x
>This seems to be quite contrary. But things like S_IRUSR don’t say
>anything to me, so I might have got this wrong.
>
>The main thing is: I don’t wont the SUID-Bit to be set.
>Where should I look to understand this?

In general umask is the inverse of permissions, just short of all cases.
Setting suid normally requires direct specific root action and may not be
possible on vfat or ntfs partitions/mounts.

?-)