Cannot upgrade Haiku Nightly Installation to Latest Revision without formatting partition in VirtualBox

[jt15s]

Hi there,

Upgrading A) Haiku Beta 2 in VirtualBox to a Haiku Nightly Revision and B) a Haiku Nightly Revision to a newer Nightly Revision requires the virtual hard disk (formatted to BeFS) to be unmounted and formatted as BeFS again. Otherwise, the installer throws a "directory does not exist" error. Thankfully, I haven't put anything in the VHD, so formatting the VHD is fine for me, but it might be inconvenient for users who have files stored in the VHD.

I have been upgrading Haiku Installations in VirtualBox by downloading the latest Nightly, unzipping the file and then loading and booting from the extracted ISO file.

My VirtualBox configuration is as follows:

• Operating System: Other, 64-bit
• System:
  1. Base Memory: 1024MB
  2. Boot Order: Floppy, Optical, Hard Disk
  3. Acceleration: VT-x/AMD-V, nested paging
• Display:
  1. Video Memory: 36MB
  2. Scale-factor: 3.00
  3. Graphics Controller: VBoxVGA
  4. Remote Desktop Server & Recording: Disabled
• Storage:
  1. Controller: IDE
  2. IDE Primary Master: Haiku.vdi (Normal, 4.00GB)
• Audio:
  1. Host Driver: Windows DirectSound
  2. Controller: ICH AC97
• Network:
  1. Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT)
• USB:
  1. USB Controller: OHCI

Thanks!

[jt15s]

Apologies for the misleading title: I meant "Virtual Hard Drive" instead of "Partition".

Thanks.

[jt15s]

What the Drive Partition tool shows for my VirtualBox setup.

[jt15s]

The error displayed by the installer.

[humdinger]

Not saying this isn't a bug in Installer, just pointing out: updating is usually done with pkgman/SoftwareUpdater after setting the desired repo with pkgman/Repository prefs. See ​https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/daily-tasks/updating-system

[jt15s]

I've noticed updating Software fails too. The Software Updater downloads most packages and installs them, but the last few package updates fail for some odd reason, with an error message. IIRC, it says something like "This package could not be downloaded/installed".

[nielx]

I'm going to try to reproduce this.

[nielx]

File list of the target partition after wiping the drive and doing an install

[nielx]

The 'Clean Install' feature seems to behave as it should on a normal setup where the Disk is partitioned and has one Haiku partition. The next question is about the drive layout. From attachment:"Screenshot 2020-10-30 171255.png"​ it looks like the drive you are trying to install on, does not have any partition map. Instead it is a raw disk.

I tried to reinstall on a raw disk, and that scenario also worked. I did not see the error in attachment:"Screenshot 2020-10-30 171323.png"​.

So I cannot reproduce the issue. Could you use checkfs on your machine to try and see if the filesystem is working correctly?

[jt15s]

Hello,

I tried installing Haiku on a new virtual machine. I first installed Beta2, then attempted to upgrade to a Nightly Image from October - that produced the problem I described above. I checked twice, and the disk shown in the partition setup and the screenshot I sent originally are correctly formatted - if you look in the File System column it says "BeFS".

Then I tried installing the latest Nightly Image - that worked fine with no issues at all. So, it looks like the issue has been fixed in the latest Nightly. Thus, I think we can consider this issue fixed and close the ticket.

Thanks for your help!

[nielx]

Thanks for checking. The change that fixed the clean install was made on 16 November 2020 as hrev54713