On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:12:09AM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Many thanks (again) for your help here! According to the backtrace you > sent earlier in this thread, it looks like the crash occurs in the > "free-parted" procedure. > > This procedure tries to unallocate Parted resources and waits for the > partition table changes to be synchronized to disk. The > "with-delay-device-in-use?" tries 4 times every 250ms to detect if the > device is still in use. > > Maybe it takes longer on your HW to synchronize the partition tables. If > you could test the attached patch on top of 1.2.0 it would be terrific. > > Thanks, > > Mathieu
Thank you for the quick patch! Clearly you have been spot-on. “Partition formatting is in progress, please wait” is displayed considerably longer but eventually succeeds. I tried 3 times successfully with your patch. I tried again without your patch and it failed. I tried once more with your patch and formatting succeeded again. (Install failed due to a loss of network connectivity and restarting is impossible, but that is less important, normally all works.) Regards, Florian
