Bug#618413: (no subject)

[Andrea Palazzi <palazziandrea@yahoo.it>]

--- Mar 15/3/11, Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org> ha scritto:
> 
> There are issues with your network connection. The network
> card reports some warnings about not being able to load
> firmware:
> Mar 15 00:14:58 kernel: [   29.041477] r8169
> 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-2.fw
> Mar 15 00:14:58 kernel: [   29.043224] eth0:
> unable to apply firmware patch
Yes, I didn't load the firmware required, however this should not influence
the formatting or the LVM initialization part...

> I'm not sure this is normal, trying to mount sda3 (your
> linux partition) on /media.
> Let's see if someone can enlighten us on this.
> 
> Mar 15 00:15:22 main-menu[514]: (process:3596): mount:
> mounting /dev/sda3 on /media failed: Invalid argument
> Mar 15 00:15:22 main-menu[514]: (process:3596): umount:
> can't umount /media: Invalid argument

This may be another problem, however my installation fails earlier: I can't
neither format the partition - tried with ext3, ext4, XFS, JFS, but unsuccessfully - nor create volume groups or physical volumes.
In the first case, in the console I have a message like this:

/dev/sda3 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a
filesystem here.

With LVM, the error is similar:

Can't open /dev/sda3 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?

It seems that something is using the partition, or didn't free it after
operating on it... how can I see if there is some process using the partition?

Bye
Andrea