Bug#683747: installation-reports: partitioning gets wedged after selecting empty partitions for LVM
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
My computer came with three NTFS partitions, primaries 1-3. During
install, I resized partitions 2 and 3, leaving:
primary 1 (NTFS)
primary 2 (NTFS)
empty space
primary 3 (NTFS)
empty space
I went to "Configure Logical Volume Manager", created a volume group,
and selected the two empty spaces to go into it. This resulted in a
helpful dialog with title "[!!] Partition Disks" and contents "??? ???".
After that, things went wrong: some menu options no longer appeared or
didn't work. Finally, I went back to the main menu, and when I selected
"Partition disks", it just returned me to the main menu. I had to
restart.
I think the reason is that it is not possible to turn both empty spaces
into partitions, due to the limit of 4 primary partitions. But the
partitioning tool did not detect this condition gracefully.
(I am reporting the bug from a different computer, but I don't think the
hardware details matter.)
Andrew
PS. The ability to mount and examine NTFS partitions in the installer
wolud be nice.
Boot method: network
Image version: Wheezy Alpha1 (http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/ as of 2012-08-02)
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