Bug#714615: partman-base: partman hangs infinitivly if daemon died
Package: partman-base
Severity: normal
hi,
i used the net-installer method to install onto a current mac book pro. when
partitioning started it hang on 50% (step 30parted) forever. when i killed the
30parted-script it hang in 54% (step 35dump) when re-doing the partitiong-step.
when investigating further i found that it was reading from a fifo with no
reply. i discovered that the other end seems to be a partitioning daemon that
just died.
i would suggest to detect if the daemon died to prevent hanging somehow if
that's possible (removing the fifo if the daemon died?). maybe blindly re-start
the daemon could help (it did in my case, it just didn't die again).
still the main question is: why did the daemon die at all. as i am not very
firm with the whole mac setup (GPT, doubled into MBR, ...) i need some help to
determine why the daemon died with my setup (which is quite straight forward:
double-boot with osx). maybe it's the new hardware which is probably not often
used with debian yet.
regards,
michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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