John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote on 1/4/2021 1:56 AM:
My guess is that this issue can be worked around by zeroing the partition
table of the system before installing Debian.
Can someone give it a try?
I did so, zeroing out my drive first, with the latest 2020-01-03 netinst
image, and it seems to maybe get a little bit further, but still hangs.
In the TUI, it hangs at 52% instead of ~47% percent, as it did before.
It seems to stall in when executing /lib/partman/init.d/35dump (which
seems to never exit)
All the above nine-line script does is cat the device strings (via
/var/lib/partman/devices/*) and then the debian-installer stuffs this in
a dialog box, presumably to select the drive to install to. Since
there's only one drive on my system, and I've verified I get expected
values from the one entry for sda, I'm not sure why it's hanging, but
it's progress of a sort.
Adrian
