Bug#949651: installation-reports: install on lenovo server fails guided partitioning

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Hey Julien!

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 09:18:54AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>Package: installation-reports
>Severity: normal
>
>Boot method: CD
>Image version: https://get.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.2.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>Date: January 22, 2020

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>Comments/Problems:
>
>I couldn't get guided partitioning to work.  It would fail every time
>complaining that the drive was probably too small or something like
>that (I didn't save the exact message).  This is a brand new machine,
>sda is hw raid1 on 2x128G M.2 SATA modules.  (Same thing happened on
>another identical system so this is apparently reproducible.)

Hmmm, odd. Something is picking up on those M2 modules multiple times,
it seems. You sure they're SATA?

$ grep /dev/nvme partman.log 
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=nvme1n1 /dev/nvme1n1
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=nvme2n1 /dev/nvme2n1
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=nvme3n1 /dev/nvme3n1
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=nvme4n1 /dev/nvme4n1
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=nvme5n1 /dev/nvme5n1
Path: /dev/nvme0n1
Path: /dev/nvme1n1
Path: /dev/nvme2n1
Path: /dev/nvme3n1
Path: /dev/nvme4n1
Path: /dev/nvme5n1

I don't know if that's the cause of the problem, but it looks suspect
to me.

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