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

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

Hi Steve,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:04:22 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> 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
> 
> ...
> 
> >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.
> 
No, these are separate (unused) devices.

Cheers,
Julien