Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

[Olaf van der Spek <OvdSpek@LIACS.NL>]

David Härdeman wrote:
> 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.

I don't know how to tell which one uses 100% CPU.
The bottom of the list is:
parted_server
/bin/sh /lib/partman/init.d/96initial_auto
/bin/sh /lib/partman/init.d/96initial_auto
/bin/sh /lib/partman/automatically_partition/70some_d
ps ax
/bin/sh /lib/partman/automatically_partition/70some_d

Everything after the first 96initial_auto seem to get started over and 
over and change each time
I also see 20bigges and 50some.
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