Hello all. Seems the first install on (used) bare metal HW found a problem. Previous tests with a VM worked OK.
During the first reinstall on a bare metal server that already contained an installed system, mke2fs hung.
I switched to a second console to look at the issue and found that stderr tmpfile for mke2fs contains "Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda2" and stdio tmpfile "prompts" with "Proceed anyway? (n/Y)". Giving a 'y' in the main console lets it proceed, but it shouldn't have stopped.
It seems the wipefs -af /dev/sda* before parted is not enough. Maybe a second wipefs is needed between parted and mkfs [*]?
IIUC it's quite a corner case (new gpt partition overlapping an old dos extended partition), but probably it's better to handle it.
[*] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/394984/partition-still-encrypted-with-luks-after-wipefs/394999#394999
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