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neon unstable: calamares: no option to erase disk #169

Open star-buck opened 5 years ago

star-buck commented 5 years ago

test

star-buck commented 5 years ago

starting cala a second time (without reboot, just after it crashed) then tada displays the option correctly: Screenshot_20190328_153222 picking the emptz partition now to see if it works this time where i started cala with -d for debug

star-buck commented 5 years ago

could it be the cala icon on desktop doesnt start cala in sudo mode??

adriaandegroot commented 5 years ago

could it be the cala icon on desktop doesnt start cala in sudo mode??

Unlikely (you could check the .desktop file).

Usually this is caused by the disk being unusable for erase in some way: for instance, a partition is (auto)mounted, or contains an ISO image, or .. there's a bunch of reasons. I just reached the conclusion that it's not good to hide the unavailable options: they should always be visible, but if they are unavailable there should be an explanation also visible: "You can't erase this disk because /dev/sda2 is in use as a swap partition", for instance.

star-buck commented 5 years ago

In this case i am pretty certain the icon on desktop is not started correctly.

hsitter commented 5 years ago

@adriaandegroot https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/926 I think this is somewhat complicated. On EFI VMs I repeatedly see the erase option not appearing seemingly randomly. Make VM->install->restart->want to install again->erase option gone. With BIOS systems this works all the time, with EFI it does maybe 25% of the time.