Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 08:33:29AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:30:32PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: >>Package: partman-efi >>Version: 59 >> >>partman-efi uses flawed logic that trips up when installing from usb. >>init.d/efi scans the system and counts the number of efi system >>partitions, and the number of non efi system partitions. If it does not >>find an EFI system partition, but does find at least one non ESP, then >>it throws the non_efi_system warning/question. The problem is that when >>installing to a disk that does not already have an efi system partition, >>the script *always* detects a non EFI system partition, and throws the >>warning. This may be connected to a recent change in libparted. >>Looking at the partman logs and the output after adding a set -x to the >>init.d/efi script, it appears to me that what is happening is that the >>system asks libparted to create a new partition on the hard disk that >>will become an EFI system partition. Either init.d/efi runs before the >>partition has been formatted with a fat filesystem, or parted_server is >>still running and is keeping the "ext2" fs type cached from before it >>was formatted. Either way, the script decides it sees an ext2 >>filesystem on the drive, and that counts as a non EFI system partition, >>and so it throws the message. > >Ugh. :-( > >I'm just about to go on VAC for a few weeks, it's going to be >difficult to find time to try and fix this. Help would be very >welcome!
Hmmm, and just testing with the latest Debian amd64 daily netinst all works flawlessly here still, using the same empty disk in a KVM setup as your bug reporter. This suggests the problem is Ubuntu-specific, or there's an issue with other software. You allude to potential changes in libparted; how do the versions in Debian and Ubuntu compare here? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
