Your message dated Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:54:38 +0200 with message-id <201307200054.58292.holger@layer-acht.org> and subject line dealing with old installation-reports has caused the Debian Bug report #528847, regarding d-i partitioner fails on Sun disklabel to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 528847: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528847 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: d-i partitioner fails on Sun disklabel
- From: Anthony Bathgate <eyemwing@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 03:58:23 -0400
- Message-id: <4A0E721F.20101@comcast.net>
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: mirror/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-sparc/current/images/mini.iso Date: 2009/5/16 1:00AM GMT-5 Machine: Sun Ultra 1 Processor: UltraSparc 200MHz Memory: 512mb Partitions: Initially blank, FUBAR, or otherwise unknown.Final partitioning scheme: zeromus:~# df -TlFilesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 ext3 1851432 342848 1414536 20% / tmpfs tmpfs 255256 0 255256 0% /lib/init/rw udev tmpfs 10240 160 10080 2% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 255256 0 255256 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 ext2 91159 15407 70888 18% /boot /dev/sdb1 ext3 2045912 237028 1704956 13% /var Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): zeromus:~# lspci -knn zeromus:~# (this would make sense, because it's not a pci system) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: Booted fine, continued through the entire install process 100% as normal until the partitioner. Chose manual partitioning from the menu. Walked through the partitioning process as normal, and quickly discovered that it wasn't doing as it was told. /dev/sda (2.1GB disk)- Created 100mb /boot ext2 partition Created 100mb swap partition Attempted to create remaining 1.9GB partition - ended up with ~700KB. Similar story for /dev/sdb (same size). Did a little poking around with the partition tools in the shell during the standard install. Discovered that the disklabel was initially written to the disk with the correct geometry, but after the creation of the first partition on the disk, the disklabel now indicates a much smaller disk with significantly different geometry. Did not attempt to write to disk - it would have been pointless anyway because the effective usable size of the disk was ~200MB. Had to partition the disks manually from expert mode's shell using parted directly. After rewriting the disklabel, I was able to partition the drive properly. Rebooted out of expert mode (No real reason), reloaded in standard mode, ran through again, only using the partitioning menu to assign the mountpoints and filesystems. Everything worked as expected from that point forward. This system will be getting new drives in the next week or so, at which point I'll be able to use it to reproduce and further debug this problem if needed.
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- Subject: dealing with old installation-reports
- From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:54:38 +0200
- Message-id: <201307200054.58292.holger@layer-acht.org>
Hi, thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated. I read through all the bugs mentioned here (and I'm sure they were read by several people at the time they were submitted) and am closing them now as/if - they (finally) indicated success and/or - I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in Wheezy and/or - they only contained very little information and/or - they contained user errors and/or - they have been from a development phase where things were not stable and/or - they are very old, more than 3 years. If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply (it's easy to reopen and I'll do if requested) or just file a new one - thats often better, as the bug log will be clearer and shorter and not contain cruft. cheers, HolgerAttachment: signature.asc
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