Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-02-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de): > Hi! > > Coming back to the discussion after having re-assigned the bug to the > partman-ext3 package. First of all, this particular bug was reported > in Ubuntu as well [1], so I have linked this bug report to the LP bug >

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-02-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! Coming back to the discussion after having re-assigned the bug to the partman-ext3 package. First of all, this particular bug was reported in Ubuntu as well [1], so I have linked this bug report to the LP bug report. Secondly, I would like to discuss here what is keeping us from adding "-F"

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-02-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: >Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de): >> Hi! >> >> Coming back to the discussion after having re-assigned the bug to the >> partman-ext3 package. First of all, this particular bug was reported >> in

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/23/2016 03:39 PM, Tweak Linux wrote: > It needs to be added to mkfs.ext4 also... No, it doesn't. There is just one canonical call to mkfs in partman-ext3 [1]: if log-output -t partman --pass-stdout \ mkfs.$filesystem $device $usage >/dev/null; then

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-01-23 Thread Tweak Linux
"I'd therefore suggest to add -F to mkfs.ext3 in partman-ext3" It needs to be added to mkfs.ext4 also... On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:00 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > > Following is a workaround for this problem in preseed environment that > >

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-01-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! > Following is a workaround for this problem in preseed environment that > worked for me: > > d-i partman/early_command string sed -r -e '/^[[:space:]]*mkfs\. > /s/^([[:space:]]*)(mkfs\.[^[:space:]]+)/\1\2 -F/g' -i /lib/partman > /commit.d/50format_ext3 Which basically adds the force flag

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-11-13 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Following is a workaround for this problem in preseed environment that worked for me: d-i partman/early_command string sed -r -e '/^[[:space:]]*mkfs\./s/^([[:space:]]*)(mkfs\.[^[:space:]]+)/\1\2 -F/g' -i /lib/partman/commit.d/50format_ext3 HTH -- Ashish SHUKLA “If a 6600 used paper tape

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-11-10 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Hi, The bug still seem to be present, as tried with the most recent Jessie netboot image. [ ]netboot.tar.gz 01-Sep-2015 18:32 18M Following is the output from network-console at the time of issue: --8<---cut here---start->8--- ~ # fdisk -l

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-05-01 Thread Tweak Linux
I can confirm that the bug still exists. It exists in all my live-builds for jessie. No problem to reproduce it with manual partioning. It happens every time I try to reformat and use an existing ext4-partions where another installation exists. In other words, a partition which holds a grub.

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-04-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Cyril, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I couldn't reproduce this issue with the upcoming D-I Jessie RC3: We just tested it the way we ran into it by using http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso and we could no more reproduce it

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-04-13 Thread Tianon Gravi
On 13 April 2015 at 18:23, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Oh, it sounds better if there's an improvement between identified versions! I'm not sure what's responsible for it out of the blue, but I'll happily focus on other things at the moment. ;) I _think_ it was that -f was added to

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-04-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Tianon Gravi admwig...@gmail.com (2015-04-13): On 13 April 2015 at 18:18, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Reinstall with btrfs (already reported as successful by Tianon on IRC, cc'd to make sure): Indeed, I confirm that I tested a completely clean install of btrfs without issue on

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-04-13 Thread Tianon Gravi
On 13 April 2015 at 18:18, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Reinstall with btrfs (already reported as successful by Tianon on IRC, cc'd to make sure): Indeed, I confirm that I tested a completely clean install of btrfs without issue on RC2 and that I also did a full install on ext4, then

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-04-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2015-02-20): Control: severity -1 important Axel Beckert a...@debian.org (2015-02-04): Control: found -1 20150107 Control: severity -1 serious Hi, MARTON Jozsef wrote: The formatting dialog hanged at 33%. * What outcome did you expect

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-02-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: severity -1 important Axel Beckert a...@debian.org (2015-02-04): Control: found -1 20150107 Control: severity -1 serious Hi, MARTON Jozsef wrote: The formatting dialog hanged at 33%. * What outcome did you expect instead? To re-format /dev/sda3 creating a fresh

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2015-02-04 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: found -1 20150107 Control: severity -1 serious Hi, MARTON Jozsef wrote: The formatting dialog hanged at 33%. * What outcome did you expect instead? To re-format /dev/sda3 creating a fresh ext4 filesystem. After examining the situation and killing the mkfs.ext4 process on

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2014-11-01 Thread MARTON Jozsef
Package: debian-installer Version: 7.7 Beta 2 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installing Debian Jessie amd64 using Debian-installer 7.7 Beta 2 amd64 netinst on a partition utilized before. The partition have had grub installed in the partition