Bug#539228: partman freezes with encrypted partitions
Package: debian-installer
Version: squeeze
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Tags: partman,luks,cryptsetup,encrypted
The bug does not occur on the system where bugreport is installed,because
this bug prevent me from installing debian
When i try to install debian squeeze on usb key (netinstall)
and when i try to create installation over encrypted fs in partman,partman
reload and freeze at 52% of loading.
The installation is in french ,partman works in french until the bug occurs.
Next partman crashes,and i have a message saying "loading partman 52%"
(in english this time!!) and all stay freezed at this point.
If i try to install the system without using encrypted fs ,it works.
The computer where i try to install debian squeeze is:
archos 10 (netbook)
ubuntu edition
2gb ram
500go hd
intel atom 1.6ghz
I am using the last version of squeeze netinstall at the 29 of july,
with the manual method syslinux,mbr-install + squeeze_net_install.iso on
the usb key
The partitions are something like this :
1 primary ext3 not encrypted bootable /boot about 500M
5 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 15G
6 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 15G
7 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 15G
8 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 4G
9 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 4G
10 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 5G
11 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 4G
12 logical reserved for encrypted volume about 200G
and about 200gb unused
(capacity of the disk =500GB)
The bug has occured several times,but not exactly at the same moment:
First occur ,when i select sda5 and choosing to use it for encrypted volume
Second occur i noticed, all partitions are selected to be used as encrypted
volumes, next i choose "configuring encrypted volumes" , i configure the
first ones and when i reach about sda11 or sda12 the bug occurs
If i launch an extra shell on tty2 for instance
and using "ps aux"
i can see two processes involving partman
the first is something like "/bin/partman"
the second like "partman dump" (sorry i don t remember exactly)
if i kill the both, i have a message like "error occured in installation",
next i have the installation menu of debian
i select "partitionning" ,and it s the same thing "loading partman 52%"
and freeze
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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