Bug#261008: installation-reports: Partman with other OS goes loop around swap control

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:04:26 +0900 (JST),
> Kenshi Muto wrote:
> > Package: installation-reports
> > Severity: important
> > Version: 20040722 sid_d-i
> > 
> > I tried today's image, and found a problem around swap control.
> 
> > When I chose "Finish partiioning and write changes to disk" and "Yes",
> > it backs partitioner screen again.
> > I don't know what's happen (other virtual terminal doesn't show
> > anything error), but I noticed it was succeeded when I removed swap
> > partition or changed it to other filesystem type. It looks something
> > wrong around swap partition handling.
> 
> This is from commit.d/parted, in partman.
> 
> Unfortunately following r18111 change caused a problem.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> --- commit.d/parted     (revision 18110)
> +++ commit.d/parted     (revision 18111)
> @@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
> 
>  . /lib/partman/definitions.sh
> 
> +disable_swap
>  for dev in $DEVICES/*; do
>      [ -d "$dev" ] || continue
>      cd $dev
>      open_dialog COMMIT
>      close_dialog
>  done
> +enable_swap
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> When I comment out disable_swap and enable_swap, it works.
> But as I know this change is needed for small memory installation... Hmm.

Can you get any kind of debugging info? Of course I can't reproduce
this, even with a similar setup (except no windows).

-- 
see shy jo