Bug#699136: installation-reports: partman hangs on Dell Optiplex 960
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network
Image version: wheezy non-graphical netboot from 2013-01-13 (i think)
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: Dell Optiplex 960
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
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]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
partman hung at either 50% or 54% during the "Partition hard drives"
phase of the installer.
switching to a vt, i was able to see that it appeared to be hung
during 35dump.
killing parted from a vt was successful, but each time i tried to
re-run partman, it hung on 35dump again.
I ultimately installed manually, thanks to parted-deb and debootstrap
:(
--dkg
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I'm attaching the output of lshw -- i'm not sure what else would be useful.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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