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



Christian Perrier wrote:
> 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...

Ok, I've found that this is just that we have small drives and
partman-auto is not able to come up with any recipes that fit (which is
why it doesn't prompt for any), and it lacks a check for this. I'll add
a check.

My vmware drive is 300 mb. Memory is 95 mb. Yours?

-- 
see shy jo

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