Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Image version: beta1 DVD amd64 http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-amd64-DVD-1.iso Date: 28 August 2012
I successfully proceed through all steps up to partitioning / partman I have a single disk of 500GB I create the following: sda1 256MB sda5 250GB sda6 250GB In the main partman partitioning screen, it now shows me #1 primary 254.8 MB ext4 /boot #5 logical 250.0 GB lvm #6 logical 249.8 GB lvm Then I choose the menu option to set up LVM and create a volume group It asks me "Please select the devices for the new volume group" and it shows the following with checkboxes: sda1 256MB sda5 499GB *** this is wrong sda6 250GB Notice that for sda5, it reports the size of the extended partition rather than the logical partition? fdisk /dev/sda shows correct values: sda1 256MB sda2 499GB (type 5, Extended) sda5 250GB (type 8e) sda6 250GB (type 8e) I go ahead and tick both of sda5 and sda6 partman is now at the menu where I can create an LV, etc I go to a shell and run pvscan and I see the following: PV /dev/sda5 VG vg00 lvm2 [465.52 GiB / 465 PV /dev/sda6 232.69 GiB Total: 2 [698.21 GiB] Notice it is not just displaying the wrong values: it actually thinks I have 750GB of space when I only have 500GB I don't want to guess what happens if it writes to the latter half of /dev/sda5 and I don't have time to try it, but I can't imagine any positive outcome If I delete the volume group and then create it again, the second time around, it behaves correctly. Looking at Alt-F4 log output, I notice kernel: pvcreate: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! appears twice around the time that the bad VG was created. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/503cd0b5.9020...@pocock.com.au
