Control: unarchive 893886 Control: forcemerge 893886 -1 On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 12:56 +0200, Pablo R wrote: > Package: partman-auto > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I recently assisted a friend in her installation of Debian over the > phone. > Going through manual partitionning over the phone would be too > bothersome so I told her to use the automated partitionning option > that uses a whole disk with LVM and encryption. > > Everything went well except that a few weeks later my friend's > computer would not boot: apparently, a kernel update had gone wrong > because the /boot partition was full. > Of course my friend did not see the problem during the update because > she did not know she had to pay attention to that. > > I had the same problem myself a bit more than 10 years ago, and since > then I always do partitioning manually during installs so I did not > know until then that too small /boot partition was still a thing. > > The default should probably be like 1GB or even 2GB to be safe :). [...]
This is fixed in the current version of partman-auto, though not (yet) in stable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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