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Bug#472595: marked as done (iso-scan: should search partitions before disks on powerpc at least)

Your message dated Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:32:16 +0000
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and subject line Bug#472595: fixed in iso-scan 1.25
has caused the Debian Bug report #472595,
regarding iso-scan: should search partitions before disks on powerpc at least
to be marked as done.

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Package: iso-scan
Version: 1.24
Severity: important

More version info: lenny hd-media 20080227 booted via BootX

Hello,
I'm working on a Lenny install on my Wallstreet Powerbook G3 powerpc system and ran into an unexpected result with iso-scan mounting up the iso as it should, but this caused the partitioner to break.
I have what I believe is a pretty standard Mac partition setup on this system, using the Macintosh layout, which has a bunch of partitions at the beginning, usually putting the first real partition of any size, an HFS partition containing Mac OS 9.2 at hda9, at less than 1mb into the disk, and I'm starting my debian system at hda10 for root and hda11 for swap.
The problem comes in when iso-scan runs through the list of devices to look for the ISO image to complete the install, and actually selects the whole disk hda first, and mounts it. At this point, all of the mkfs programs I tried flat out refused to format /dev/hda10. mkreiserfs was willing to do the necessary work, but the device could not be mounted as the system already thought the whole device was in use, which perhaps it might have been, as /dev/hda (the whole thing) was mounted on /hd-media. 

Line 116 of iso-scan.postinst reads:

DEVS="$(list-devices disk; list-devices partition; list-devices maybe-usb-floppy)"
I believe this might work better for my situation if the scan order were partition, disk, floppy. I'm assuming that in that case, it would scan individual partitions first, find the iso in /dev/hda9, and everything from that point would continue as expected. That is to say nothing about anyone else's situation with this program, but of course I must leave that to your discretion.
I was able to work around the problem by unmounting /hd-media, skipping back to the menu and formatting, then going back to the menu once more to continue from the scanning part. So it's not impossible, it just might seem that way.
Thanks for a great installer, and please let me know if I can help with additional testing or information. I hope I am not overstating the severity of the bug, but the usability of the package is in my opinion degraded severely for the hd-media install case. 

-Sam

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Source: iso-scan
Source-Version: 1.25

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

iso-scan_1.25.dsc
  to pool/main/i/iso-scan/iso-scan_1.25.dsc
iso-scan_1.25.tar.gz
  to pool/main/i/iso-scan/iso-scan_1.25.tar.gz
iso-scan_1.25_all.udeb
  to pool/main/i/iso-scan/iso-scan_1.25_all.udeb
load-iso_1.25_all.udeb
  to pool/main/i/iso-scan/load-iso_1.25_all.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 472595@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> (supplier of updated iso-scan package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:16:44 +0200
Source: iso-scan
Binary: iso-scan load-iso
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.25
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
Description: 
 iso-scan   - Scan hard drives for an installer ISO image (udeb)
 load-iso   - Load installer components from an installer ISO (udeb)
Closes: 472595
Changes: 
 iso-scan (1.25) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Scan partitions before scanning the whole disk to avoid blocking partition
     changes in partman. Thanks to Sam Powers for tracking the issue down and
     providing the patch. Closes: #472595.
 .
   [ Updated translations ]
   * Amharic (am.po) by tegegne tefera
   * Marathi (mr.po)
   * Panjabi (pa.po) by Amanpreet Singh Alam
Files: 
 81da54c5c04677d0734b660b61d9a442 665 debian-installer optional iso-scan_1.25.dsc
 61a6c132fd0eb42dd3ca436c01223258 67092 debian-installer optional iso-scan_1.25.tar.gz
 60d2531815787074b71d794c6d71399d 42490 debian-installer optional iso-scan_1.25_all.udeb
 f80f94c12ffa0bcaeebd6656b7393553 3536 debian-installer extra load-iso_1.25_all.udeb
Package-Type: udeb

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