Processed: Re: Bug#1056018: partman-base: parted_devices hangs with process in D state during Debian installer Detect Disks step

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Bug #1056018 [src:partman-base] partman-base: parted_devices hangs with process 
in D state during Debian installer Detect Disks step
Severity set to 'important' from 'critical'

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Bug#1056018: partman-base: parted_devices hangs with process in D state during Debian installer Detect Disks step

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

Olivier F. R. Dierick  (2023-11-16):
> Justification: breaks the whole system

Not being able to install doesn't “break the whole system”. This is a
showstopper in the installation process in your case indeed, but that's
not what this severity is for.

> Updating from Debian 8 to Debian 12 from an USB stick.

Maybe check the image was correctly written on your USB stick? A number
of weird issues like that one are linked to hardware faults or similar
issues.

>* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>  ineffective)?
> 
> Ineffective: Tried disconnecting external disks & USB storage HUB, and
> switching SATA setting from AHCI to IDE in BIOS.
> Also tried expert mode & text mode.
> 
>* What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> Debian Installer is stuck on Detect Disks.
> Switching to a console and running ps shows that a parted_devices
> process is in D state.

Anything in dmesg or /var/log/syslog?

It might be interesting to see what happens with 12.0 images (in case
something interesting happened in the kernel, but such a hard failure
seems rather strange), and maybe try your luck with some Debian Live
image?


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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Bug#1056018: partman-base: parted_devices hangs with process in D state during Debian installer Detect Disks step

[Olivier F. R. Dierick]

Source: partman-base
Version: 226
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Updating from Debian 8 to Debian 12 from an USB stick.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
 ineffective)?

Ineffective: Tried disconnecting external disks & USB storage HUB, and 
switching SATA setting from AHCI to IDE in BIOS.
Also tried expert mode & text mode.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Debian Installer is stuck on Detect Disks.
Switching to a console and running ps shows that a parted_devices process is in 
D state.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

parted_devices should only take a few seconds and Debian Installer should 
continue to the partionning step.

Note: I'm reporting from another computer.
System information from the old OS is irrelevant anyway as the computer is 
booted on the Debian 12 installer image when the problem occurs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled