Bug#774525: installation-reports: Problem formating entire disk to ext4.

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

ajstad...@gridtrak.com  (2016-09-10):
> This might be the reason why the Debian Stretch Alpha 7/i386 installation
> does not complete the Partition Formatting step.  It gets stuck at about
> 30%.
> 
> I am using Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V platform and tried both VHD and VHDX
> virtual drives.
> 
> This is not a problem with the current Debian 8.5.0 Jessie/i386
> installation.
> 
> I am a novice, so I don't know how to troubleshoot or work around this
> issue.

This bug was fixed in stretch but not yet in jessie; it's on my todo list
for the 8.9 point release though.


KiBi.


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Bug#774525: installation-reports: Problem formating entire disk to ext4.

[ajstadlin]

This might be the reason why the Debian Stretch Alpha 7/i386 installation does 
not complete the Partition Formatting step.  It gets stuck at about 30%.

I am using Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V platform and tried both VHD and VHDX virtual 
drives.

This is not a problem with the current Debian 8.5.0 Jessie/i386 installation.

I am a novice, so I don't know how to troubleshoot or work around this issue.

Bug#774525: installation-reports: Problem formating entire disk to ext4.

[Marek Zelem]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: important

When attempting to format entire disk (LOOP partition type) to ext4 format
process hangs at 30% or so.
I figured out that it runs mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda which prompts whether I realy
want to format entire disk.

Solution to this problem is to add option -F to mkfs.
I did it by modifying file /lib/partman/commit.d/50format_ext3 line starting
with mkfs.$filesystem $device ... to mkfs.$filesystem -F $device ...
My fix worked.


-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.7.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: Date and time of the install

Machine: QEMU virtual machine
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:   [ ]
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:

Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
  and ideas you had during the initial install.


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