Package: installation-reports Severity: important The Wheezy hd-media installer (daily from 08-08) hangs at the
step "Searching drives for an installer ISO image", while mounting the extended partition /dev/sda4. This partition should never be mounted. The ouptut of ps w is given below: 1291 root 5728 S udpkg --configure --force-configure iso-scan 1292 root 3980 S {iso-scan.postin} /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/iso- scan.postinst configure 1379 root 8432 S udevd --daemon --resolve-names=never 1380 root 8264 S udevd --daemon --resolve-names=never 1898 root 0 SW [jbd2/sda3-8] 1899 root 0 SW< [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1904 root 0 SW< [loop0] 1941 root 0 SW< [loop1] 1960 root 3980 R mount -t auto -o ro /dev/sda4 /hd-media 1969 root 3980 R ps w As a workaround the process 1291 can be killed to continue with the installation. The hang is caused by the script iso-scan.postinst (package: iso-scan), where the extended partition is not omitted from the device list. This bug has the same cause as the mountmedia bug #683849. The following untested patch should solve this issue: --- a/iso-scan-1.40/debian/iso-scan.postinst +++ b/iso-scan-1.40/debian/iso-scan.postinst @@ -274,7 +274,16 @@ while :; do mkdir /cdrom 2>/dev/null || true mkdir /hd-media 2>/dev/null || true - DEVS="$(list-devices partition; list-devices disk; list-devices maybe-usb-floppy)" + tmpdevs="$(list-devices partition; list-devices disk; list-devices maybe-usb-floppy)" + DEVS= + # Remove extended partitions + for tmpdev in $tmpdevs; do + PARTITION_TYPE="$(blkid -p -s PART_ENTRY_TYPE $tmpdev | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | cut -d \" -f 2)" + if [ "$PARTITION_TYPE" != "0x5" ] && [ "$PARTITION_TYPE" != "0xf" ]; then + DEVS=${DEVS:+$DEVS\\n}$tmpdev + fi + done + log "devices found: '$DEVS'" STATE=10 continue -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB disk Image version: Daily installer from 08-08 Date: 08-08-2012 Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T61p Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O ] Detect network card: [] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1344434120.57774.yahoomail...@web141105.mail.bf1.yahoo.com