Bug#684309: installation-reports: Wheezy installer hangs at partition hard drives

[M H <mh000151@yahoo.com>]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: important


The Wheezy installation  hangs while loading the 

partitioner (hd-media daily from 08-08).

 
The ps w output:

6865 root      6304 S    udpkg --configure --force-configure partman-base
 6866 root      4420 S    {partman-base.po} /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/partman-base.postinst configure
 6867 root      4556 S    {partman} /bin/sh /bin/partman
 7101 root         0 SW   [jfsIO]
 7102 root         0 SW   [jfsCommit]
 7103 root         0 SW   [jfsCommit]
 7104 root         0 SW   [jfsSync]
 7118 root         0 SW<  [xfs_mru_cache]
 7119 root         0 SW<  [xfslogd]
 7120 root         0 SW<  [xfsdatad]
 7121 root         0 SW<  [xfsconvertd]
 7138 root      4556 S    {25md-devices} /bin/sh /lib/partman/init.d/25md-devices
 7142 root         0 SW<  [md]
 7144 root      6156 S    log-output -t md-devices --pass-stdout mdadm --examine --scan --config=partitions
 7145 root      4600 D    mdadm --examine --scan --config=partitions
 7151 root      4424 R    ps w

The mdadm process hangs, which also occured in the bug report  #683849.

I could continue with the installation after adding "exit 0" at the 

beginning of the file /lib/partman/init.d/25md-devices 

(package: partman-md).

On the same machine the Squeeze mdadm command 

exits  successfully:

# mdadm --examine --scan --config=partitions
#

# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
unused devices: <none>



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: USB disk
Image version: Daily installer from 08-08-2012
Date: 08-08-2012

Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T61p
Partitions: 
fdisk -lu /dev/sda

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2          206848   262320127   131056640    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3       262320128   496695295   117187584   83  Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4       496697342   976771071   240036865    5  Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5       496697344   527945727    15624192   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       527947776   762320895   117186560   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       762322944   976771071   107224064   83  Linux


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O ]
Detect network card:    [O ]
Configure network:      [O ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O ]
Detect hard drives:     [ O]
Partition hard drives:  [ E]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]