Package: partman Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable
Hello, ... First a notice, i will be away next week and possible offline, and i am not sure about this bug, if it concerns also other parted flags, like the raid or lvm one, so i put a grave severity. If you can confirm that lvm and raid are not in cause here, please lower the severity to important. I have some trouble with my motorola powerstack II prep box, and partman-prep. The log shows partman-server failing at line 1517 or something such, and being unable to set the 'prep' system flag/system type. I know that this is some failing of libparted, which doesn't properly separate the flags from the partition types, but it may potentially affect all such cases (prep, raid, lvm, palo, ...) who use the mbr/dos/fdisk partition table disk type, especially as my own tentative to do a 'partition whole disk with lvm' also failed. I believe that this needs investigating (and fixing if possible) before the beta2 goes out. So, what did i do ? I did a netboot install with the latest daily built (2006.02.17) and the .udebs in todays archive (2006.02.18), including partman-prep 7. In partman i chose erase whole ddisk (erase whole disk and use lvm failed, but possibly for other reasons), then selected the created prep partition (which has not the prep flag though), and selected the partition type and 'use partition as prep boot partition', and there i was greeted with an error dialog telling me : ??? ??? and offering me back and continue buttons. Hitting any of the buttons just kept me in this dialog, and i could not get back to the normal interface. the last lines of relevance of the partman log are : parted_server: command_change_file_system(32256-8225279,prep) parted_server: partition_with_id(32256-8225279) parted_server: Bad file system type: parted_server: Line 1579. CRITICAL ERROR!!! EXITING /lib/partman/update.d/50filesystems: error_handler: expection with type /lib/partman/update.d/50filesystems: error_handler: reading message /lib/partman/update.d/50filesystems: error_handler: reading options and then nothing. More repeats of this error if i press the back/continue buttons. Not doing this create me a partition table, but without the prep partition type set, and thus prep-installer and yaboot-installer (for IBM pseries and newer boxes) fail further down the line, rendering the system unusable. Friendly, Sven Luther Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
