OK. This crash is from the ext2/3/4 filesystem creation code in parted, and, having looked at it, it's woefully unprepared for sector sizes larger than 1024 bytes (for that matter, I don't know whether it works for 1024-byte sectors, but there are definitely problems above that). This code is deprecated upstream and was removed in parted 3. However, we've been unable to upgrade Debian/Ubuntu to this so far because it would break the installer (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696123).
In my opinion, it is not safe to attempt a fix to this code in parted; it would require fairly extensive modifications and without upstream support there's no guarantee I'd get it right. However, a much easier change is to use mkfs.ext2 here instead. We already do that for ext3/4; ext2 is only involved here because of some weirdness in the LVM setup code in d-i. We lose progress bar support, but since we're already lacking that for the much more common ext3/4 filesystems, I don't think that's a big deal. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #696123 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696123 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215458 Title: Auto-partitioning with LVM on Advanced Format Disks causes parted_server segfault To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-poweredge/+bug/1215458/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
