Bug#1056018: partman-base: parted_devices hangs with process in D state during Debian installer Detect Disks step
Source: partman-base
Version: 226
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Updating from Debian 8 to Debian 12 from an USB stick.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Ineffective: Tried disconnecting external disks & USB storage HUB, and switching SATA setting from AHCI to IDE in BIOS.
Also tried expert mode & text mode.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Debian Installer is stuck on Detect Disks.
Switching to a console and running ps shows that a parted_devices process is in D state.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
parted_devices should only take a few seconds and Debian Installer should continue to the partionning step.
Note: I'm reporting from another computer.
System information from the old OS is irrelevant anyway as the computer is booted on the Debian 12 installer image when the problem occurs.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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