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Bug#353432: marked as done (partman-server as some trouble in setting the prep partition.)

Your message dated Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:17:11 -0800
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and subject line Bug#353432: fixed in partman-base 79
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Package: partman
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable


Hello, ...

First a notice, i will be away next week and possible offline, and i am not
sure about this bug, if it concerns also other parted flags, like the raid or
lvm one, so i put a grave severity. If you can confirm that lvm and raid are
not in cause here, please lower the severity to important.

I have some trouble with my motorola powerstack II prep box, and partman-prep.
The log shows partman-server failing at line 1517 or something such, and being
unable to set the 'prep' system flag/system type. I know that this is some
failing of libparted, which doesn't properly separate the flags from the
partition types, but it may potentially affect all such cases (prep, raid,
lvm, palo, ...) who use the mbr/dos/fdisk partition table disk type,
especially as my own tentative to do a 'partition whole disk with lvm' also
failed. I believe that this needs investigating (and fixing if possible) before
the beta2 goes out.

So, what did i do ? I did a netboot install with the latest daily built
(2006.02.17) and the .udebs in todays archive (2006.02.18), including
partman-prep 7.

In partman i chose erase whole ddisk (erase whole disk and use lvm failed, but
possibly for other reasons), then selected the created prep partition (which
has not the prep flag though), and selected the partition type and 'use
partition as prep boot partition', and there i was greeted with an error dialog
telling me : ??? ??? and offering me back and continue buttons. Hitting any of
the buttons just kept me in this dialog, and i could not get back to the
normal interface.

the last lines of relevance of the partman log are :

parted_server: command_change_file_system(32256-8225279,prep)
parted_server: partition_with_id(32256-8225279)
parted_server: Bad file system type:
parted_server: Line 1579. CRITICAL ERROR!!! EXITING
/lib/partman/update.d/50filesystems: error_handler: expection with type
/lib/partman/update.d/50filesystems: error_handler: reading message
/lib/partman/update.d/50filesystems: error_handler: reading options

and then nothing. More repeats of this error if i press the back/continue
buttons.

Not doing this create me a partition table, but without the prep partition
type set, and thus prep-installer and yaboot-installer (for IBM pseries and
newer boxes) fail further down the line, rendering the system unusable.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
Friendly,

Sven Luther



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Source: partman-base
Source-Version: 79

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
partman-base, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

partman-base_79.dsc
  to pool/main/p/partman-base/partman-base_79.dsc
partman-base_79.tar.gz
  to pool/main/p/partman-base/partman-base_79.tar.gz
partman-base_79_powerpc.udeb
  to pool/main/p/partman-base/partman-base_79_powerpc.udeb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 353432@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated partman-base package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:56:11 +0000
Source: partman-base
Binary: partman-base
Architecture: source powerpc
Version: 79
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description: 
 partman-base - Partition the storage devices (partman) (udeb)
Closes: 353432
Changes: 
 partman-base (79) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * Suppress error message in the case where /var/lib/partman already
     exists.
   * definitions.sh (humandev): Handle /dev/hd* and /dev/sd*, which may end
     up being used on recent versions of the kernel and udev. /dev/hd*
     requires the busybox patch in #346077.
 .
   [ Frans Pop ]
   * Drop 'Provides: partman' as all dependencies have now been fixed and it
     results in partman no longer being skipped if partconf is used.
 .
   [ Sven Luther ]
   * prep and palo are flags, not filesystem. Fix parted-server so that
     command_change_file_system does try to set the flag if setting the
     filesystem failed (closes: #353432).
 .
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 0e13e5cd28482efe9956999137d841cd 150730 debian-installer standard partman-base_79.tar.gz
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