Bug#219558: autopartkit: dies with SIGFPE on some HW
Package: autopartkit
Version: 0.63
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
When one of the Skolelinux developers install on his laptop, Dell
Latitude CP M233XT, autopartkit dies with a floating point exception
(SIGFPE). The complete bug report is available from
<URL: http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=515 >.
These are the messages in syslog:
syslog.info klogd: LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded
user.notice 20skolelinux: info: Got profile 'Standalone'
user.notice 20skolelinux: info: Testing profile 'Standalone'
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Using 'msdos' default disk label type
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Loading table file '/etc/autopartkit/Standalone.table'
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Adding '/ default 800 5120'
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Fetched partition info / default 800 5120
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Adding 'swap swap 2*$RAMSIZE 2*$RAMSIZE'
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Fetched partition info swap swap 2*$RAMSIZE 2*$RAMSIZE
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: pre_confirm 0 0
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: post_confirm 0 0
syslog.info klogd:
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Created LVM stacks
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Locating free space on all disks
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: checking dev: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc, sector_size=512
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: part: -1, type: 8 size: (0-62) 63
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: part: -1, type: 4 size: (63-8007551) 8007489
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: free space 8007489
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Done locating free space, found 1 free areas
user.debug autopartkit[3696]: Found free space, distributing partitions.
user.info main-menu[145]: (process:3663): SIGFPE
user.warn main-menu[145]: WARNING **: Configuring 'autopartkit' failed with error code 1
user.warn main-menu[145]: WARNING **: Menu item 'autopartkit' failed.
This used to work with an earlier version of the Skolelinux install.
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