Package: debian-installer Version: 20130613+deb7u1+b2 Severity: normal Despite d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true d-i fails to install a machine when libvirt passes it a storage volume that has previously been used as PV by another host. What happens (in my case) is that partman creates a new GPT, but often that will be exactly the same as the one used by the previous host using the volume. Therefore, /dev/vda3 will be a valid LVM PV, meaning that LVM will find the previous VG. Now, depending on whether the hostname is (a) the same, or (b) different, d-i will fail to install claiming (a) a VG with the same name is already present; (b) the PV is already in use by another VG. Even if I fix the situation from within d-i manually, I cannot resume the installation — re-entering partman from the menu will just make it display "No root filesystem… [Continue]" and hitting "Continue" will just bring up the same dialog again, endlessly. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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