Yup, this is biting me too... Sorry for the long stream-of-conscious
report here, but I wrote as I worked through this issue and it shows. ;)
I don't know what someone may find important or not.
It's an odd bug though. When I create a small /boot partition as the
first item in the recipe, it rolls right along.
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string mydisk :: \
64 300 300 ext3 \
$primary{ } $bootable{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
options/noatime{ noatime } \
label{ boot } \
mountpoint{ /boot } \
. \
10000 10000 70000 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
options/noatime{ noatime } \
mountpoint{ / } \
. \
512 1024 300% linux-swap \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ swap } format{ } \
. \
500 10000 1000000000 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
options/noatime{ noatime } \
mountpoint{ /home } \
.
But if I remove the small boot partition and move root to the first
primary partition it fails.
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string mydisk :: \
10000 10000 70000 ext3 \
$primary{ } $bootable{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
options/noatime{ noatime } \
mountpoint{ / } \
. \
512 1024 300% linux-swap \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ swap } format{ } \
. \
500 10000 1000000000 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
options/noatime{ noatime } \
mountpoint{ /home } \
.
The failure from the partman logs:
/bin/autopartition-lvm: IN:
/bin/autopartition-lvm: IN: boot
parted_server: Processing flag boot
parted_server: The flag set true.
/bin/autopartition-lvm: IN: NO_MORE
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 40
parted_server: Opening infifo
/bin/autopartition-lvm: IN: NEW_PARTITION =dev=hda primary ext3
10001940480-60011642879 beginning 50011000001
parted_server: Read command: NEW_PARTITION
parted_server: command_new_partition()
parted_server: Note =dev=hda as changed
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: requested partition with type primary
parted_server: requested partition with file system ext3
parted_server: add_primary_partition(disk(117210240),19535040-117212774)
parted_server: OUT: Error
Obviously a disk with 117210240 sectors isn't going to allow a partition
ending at sector 117212774. I've been tracing through the code to try
and determine where the sectors and sizes are calculated with limited
success. The modular partman-* package structure makes it somewhat
difficult to track down.
Well, in some cases it looks like the autopartition-lvm is passing
around incorrect values for partition sizes and offsets. For example, my
failure case passes the following parameters to parted-server's
command_new_partition() function.
/home parameters:
type fs_type range_start-range_end position length
primary ext3 10001940480-60011642879 beginning 50011000001
Note that since this partition is being calculated from the beginning,
the range_end is really just the end of the disk. If you add 10001940480
(range_start) + 50011000001 (length) you get 60012940481 bytes which is
larger than the total size of the disk of 60011642879 bytes.
Note how parted_server.c converts the sizes to disk sectors in the logs:
part_start = 19535040
part_end = 117212774 <--- more sectors than the disk has
The formula used in parted_server.c for calculating the part_end value is:
1824: part_start = range_start / PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT;
1825: part_end = (range_start + length) / PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT;
So if there is a bounds check just after this code to keep the part_end
value at less than the range_end it should work (see attached patch).
I'll dig some more in the partman-auto-lvm package and see if the
calculations are borked there. Based upon the other bug reports claiming
this is not an lvm specific issue, I bet the size/offset calculations
are being done in some shared resource.
Does anyone know how to force the debian installer to use an unsigned
udeb source? I have a local debian mirror for netboot installs, but
since deb started using signed installer packages I've found it
difficult to replace or override the default installer udebs.
Tony
--- parted_server.c.orig 2009-06-17 17:08:04.000000000 +0000
+++ parted_server.c 2009-06-17 16:34:12.000000000 +0000
@@ -1823,6 +1823,10 @@
} else if (!strcasecmp(position, "beginning")) {
part_start = range_start / PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT;
part_end = (range_start + length) / PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT;
+ // Truncate the partition end to fit the maximum disk size
+ if ( part_end > ( range_end / PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT ) ) {
+ part_end = ( range_end / PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT );
+ }
} else if (!strcasecmp(position, "end")) {
part_start = (range_end - length) / PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT;
part_end = ((range_end - PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT + 1)
