More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On 1/3/21 10:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> FWIW, the source code is here:
> 
>> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/blob/master/parted_server.c
> 
> If anyone has any clever idea, please let me know.
> 
> And if someone wants to debug the issue with the hanging partionier themselves,
> check out the log in /var/log/partman on a second terminal while the partionier
> is running.
> 
> As one can see, it just stops after /lib/init.d/30_parted and I'm afraid, I have
> absolutely no idea why. There is no crash, no error, nothing.

Some more debug information.

Here are /var/lib/partman from the broken powerpc system:

> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/partman/powerpc/partman.dir/

Here the log file:

> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/partman/powerpc/partman.log

And here the same for a sparc64 installation where everything works:

> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/partman/sparc64/partman.dir/
> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/partman/sparc64/partman.log

So it's crashing after the second "OK" in line 1221:

> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-base/-/blob/master/parted_server.c#L1221

I wonder what's special on 32-bit PowerPC that it started crashing there.

Adrian

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