Bug#399951: RC1 on a NSLU2, 1GB usb drive

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

clone 399951 -1
reassign -1 partman
retitle -1 hangs at 50% - cd /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=mtdblock0 / open_dialog DUMP
thanks

* Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> [2006-11-23 00:37]:
> There's a known issue [0] installing over ssh on a 1GB hard drive in low
> mem. Without a big enough swap partition the ssh daemon goes out of
> memory creating the root fs, disconnecting the user.
> 
> Moreover, trying to login again to resume the installation, partman hangs
> doing:
>  cd /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=mtdblock0
>  open_dialog DUMP
> 
> (from /lib/partman/init.d/35dump)

I've seen this too.

> BTW, besides from this issue, the installation was perfect, congrats for
> the really fine job.
> 
> I've been able to complete the installation twice, the first time with a
> 128M swap partition, and now even with a smaller one, as suggested by
> Otavio [1], just 96M.
> 
> The partman-auto reciepe for "put everything in one partition" creates a
> swap area of around 80M, which are not enough; I'd suggest to raise the
> default size, maybe only if in low-mem.

I've commited a fix for this to SVN.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/