Bug#823996: partconf: hang when formatting a partition containing 'dos extended' partition table
Package: partconf
Version: 1.47
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When installing into a partition previously containing a 'dos extended' partition table, even if the partition was deleted and recreated, mkfs.ext4 (and likely other mkfs.[filesystem] utilities do not proceed, instead d-i effectively freezes.
This is because mkfs is asking for confirmation to create a new FS over top of partition structure.
Can be solved by manually creating fs and rerunning d-i.
Could also be solved by partconf 0'ing out the first few sectors of an extended partition when it is deleted.
This was tested and reproduced using the jessie 8.4 netinst image.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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