Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

[David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > David Härdeman wrote:
> > > Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry to
> > > "partman-auto/select_disk" in your preseed files and see if that fixes
> > > things
> >
> > After adding that line "d-i    partman-auto/select_disk    select    
> > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 8.6 GB VMware, VMware Virtual S" the installer 
> > gets stuck at:
> > Starting up the partitioner
> > 85%
> > Please wait...
>
> The same happens with the line "d-i	partman-auto/select_disk select 
> /dev/discs/disc0/disc"
>
> CPU usage appears to be 100%, so I suspect an infinite loop.

Could you change to VT2 (alt + f2) while its in this loop, run "ps ax" 
and see what processes are running? The one taking 100% CPU should be 
towards the end of the list.

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David Härdeman