Quoting M H (mh000151@yahoo.com):
> As a workaround the process 1291 can be killed to continue with the
> installation.
> The hang is caused by the script iso-scan.postinst (package: iso-scan), where
> the extended partition is not omitted from the device list.
> This bug has the same cause as the mountmedia bug #683849.
>
> The following untested patch should solve this issue:
I finally had time to test it and....it doesn't work:
The problem lies here:
> + if [ "$PARTITION_TYPE" != "0x5" ] && [ "$PARTITION_TYPE" != "0xf" ]; then
> + DEVS=${DEVS:+$DEVS\\n}$tmpdev
> + fi
"\n" is literally inserted in the list of devices, so mount actually
attemps to mount "/dev/sda1\n/dev/sda2\n....". As you might expect,
that fails..:-)
So, the patch should indeed be corrected to really build a list of
devices with hard returns between them.
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