Bug#235964: partman-auto: Seems to "hang" when starting

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):

> I can reproduce this in vmware. It is not just vmware being slow either.
> set -x shows it is in decode_recipe. It gets the ram size, and then
> apparently $1 is not set, so the cat without an argument hangs.
> decode_recipe is being called without a recipe name to decode.
> partman-auto/choose_recipe is somehow set to "". I did not go back
> further.
> 
> Either this is somehow triggered by the vmware environment, or it is
> fixed in version 7 of partman-auto. Version 7 will be in tonight's CD
> images, so we can see then.

The problem is still there with the night's CD. The only difference is
the progress bar showing 90% and no more 88%...:-))

In VmWare, of course...