Hi Marc, On Wed, 2026-07-15 at 11:09 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > when I boot a qemu machine from > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso, > everything is fine. I can proceed until partman comes up (I abort then, > partman is what interests me). > > When I check out > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer.git, do make > reallyclean, make build_netboot and boot from that mini.iso, at the > stage where partman is supposed to come up, I get a red screen saying > that partitioning disks failed. > > The log then says: > Jul 15 09:03:01 main-menu[259]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected > Jul 15 09:03:01 main-menu[259]: WARNING **: Deep recursion configuring > package partman-base (dep loop?) > Jul 15 09:03:01 main-menu[259]: WARNING **: Menu item 'partman-base' failed. > > Why does my image behave differently? Any ideas what might be going > wrong here?
I have had this issue as well when using partman-hfs in a local build and I fixed it by dropping partman-base from Depends in debian/control for the partman-hfs package. There seems to be an implicit dependency now so that the explicit dependency on partman-base is not necessary. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
