Upcoming parted release - was: Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 1/5/21 2:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > It's been localized down to "ped_disk_new(device_named(device_name)" in line > 1224. So it's a crash libparted. And one theory is that this crash occurs > due to the Mac partitioning scheme. There is a new upstream of parted due to be r

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/10/21 9:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hmmm... "then the debian-installer stuffs this in a dialog box, presumably > to select the drive to install to." > Is the dialog box somehow not getting to be displayed? If it's expecting an > answer from the dialog box, but you can't see it to answer, tha

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, at 8:46 AM, Alex Perez wrote:> > 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 m

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-09 Thread Alex Perez
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

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/5/21 2:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > It's been localized down to "ped_disk_new(device_named(device_name)" in line > 1224. So it's a crash libparted. And one theory is that this crash occurs > due to the Mac partitioning scheme. Next I will build a libparted with debug printf() cal

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 1/4/21 6:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Firstly I want to say that you have done more than most people have ever > done here to ensure we the people have Debian on ports type machines. > You have been doing all the heavy lifting for years. That is not even > remotely fair. Thanks for the

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/3/21 11:40 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/3/21 10:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> FWIW, the source code is here: >> >>> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/blob/master/parted_server.c >> >> If anyone has any clever idea, please let me know. >> Good m

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/4/21 10:39 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Might be an idea to update src:parted to the latest upstream version which > hasn't happend yet in Debian. My guess is that this issue can be worked around by zeroing the partition table of the system before installing Debian. Can someone giv

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/4/21 10:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The resulting logfile is (ignore the noise in the beginning, scroll to the > end): > >> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/partman/powerpc/partman.debug.log > > Thus, it stops at "set_disk_named(device_name, > ped_disk_new(device_named(dev

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 1/4/21 2:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/4/21 2:02 AM, Cameron MacPherson wrote: >> #define oprintf(...) \({ \char *msg_oprintf; \ >>fprintf(outfifo,__VA_ARGS__); \ >> fflush(outfifo); \msg_oprintf = >> xasprintf(__VA

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:40 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 1/3/21 10:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > FWIW, the source code is here: > > > >> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/blob/master/parted_server.c > > > > If anyone has any clever idea, please let

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/4/21 2:02 AM, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > #define oprintf(...) \({ \char *msg_oprintf; \ >fprintf(outfifo,__VA_ARGS__); \ > fflush(outfifo); \msg_oprintf = > xasprintf(__VA_ARGS__); \log("OUT: %s\n", > msg_oprintf); \

More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/3/21 10:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > FWIW, the source code is here: > >> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/blob/master/parted_server.c > > If anyone has any clever idea, please let me know. > > And if someone wants to debug the issue with the hanging partio