[Mageia-discuss] One Beta more install story

Sat Feb 25 22:21:39 CET 2012

I'm pretty sure I don't know how this relates to 4645, but I have a
+gut feeling that there is a link somewhere.
+Perceived Problem 1: we have hal, usdisks 1 and 2 pushing and shoving
+each other in the scramble to manage fixed and removable storage.
+Perceived Problem 2: a manifestation of this we have both seen in
+connection with trying to use urpmi after a fresh install. I have to
+say that I think my first guess was wrong; this is probably unrelated
+to udisks (1) because with only udisks2 installed, the error message
+can only have come from a udisks2-related script or binary.
+Actual Problem 3: I do not know what tools are thought to be essential
+for managing storage devices and I don't know why urpmi should be
+trying to use one when all I am trying to do is get a mirror list from
+t'internet.
+
+So I suppose the only point of similarity is that we both got the same
+error message from two different setups.
+
+Richard
+
+On 25/02/2012, Juergen Harms <Juergen.Harms at unige.ch> wrote:
+> Re the udisk problem
+>
+> I see a little bit clearer: it looks as if udisk2
+>
+> - does not work when I chroot (as it happens) from a Mageia 1 system
+> into cauldron (beta1)
+>
+> - does work flawlessly when I boot into the cauldron system; but this
+> cauldron system is really a minimum system, no desktop, no gtk (I want
+> to use it to clarify a BuildRequires problem): it only gives me a
+> command-line console, chroot would be much more comfortable (having
+> filesystems mounted on both systems and having all the comfort of guis
+> for editing and consulting documents on the base system).
+>
+> I guess (can somebody confirm, please), that it must be possible to do
+> unrestricted urpmi with chroot (both DVD and remote repositories) and
+> that this is probably a plain bug: udisk2 does not work with chroot. I
+> had done a first try (before I came to this clear working hypothesis)
+> and had installed - udisk (udisk2? I do not remember) - to no avail. But
+> that had, trying what-if stuff, gone a little out of hand, and I now
+> started on a new minimum system.
+>
+> I just tried to do a chroot into my old Mageia 1 Alpha file-system -
+> which is a full install, with desktop and all and which runs OK: same
+> udisk error message there, hence probably not a problem specific to
+> minimum installs.
+>
+> All this is quite time-consuming, booting all over the place, remaking
+> systems, I am a little bit frustrated. But, before crying "bug" I should
+> still repeat the entire thing once more.
+>
+> How does this relate to bugzilla #4645 - do you want to have this
+> discussion there?
+>
+> Juergen
+>
+