I too thought it was sitting there doing absolutely nothing and spent
quite a bit of time tearing my hair out because it looked hung.
It wasn't hung in my case, it was just deep in thought. After about a
minute (creating one 40Gb LV as part of a two-partition 20Gb each VG) it
finally came back to
Users have thought that it's doing nothing and hung... me!
I spent several days time cursing at the machine because it couldn't get
the RAID setup correctly when all that was wrong were three things:
1. I wasn't familiar with the installer.
2. The set of partitions I have just so happens to be