[Parted-maintainers] Bug#602568: Bug#602568: squeeze-di-beta1 installer: partman hang

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Jean-Christian,

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc at eclis.ch> wrote:
> In http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10180 Jim Meyering
> provided a patch that solve the problem. After verification, he commited it
> into git://git.debian.org/git/parted/parted.git:
>
> commit 9f5b0608611eed40ef33be2096f5d482710602e5
> Author: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
...
> Many thanks to Jim for this patch. Debian installer should use this last
> revision to fix this problem.

Thanks for Jim and you for handling this issue.

I talked to Colin today and he will take a look on this issue.

> It it worth noting that partman is still deficient in the way it handle a
> parted-server error. Improving it will certainly help to get better problem
> report from Debian users. I have see on the internet others installer report
> about hang at the same partman operation time.
>
> Also, the debian/rules for parted still should be updated with my proposed
> patch to remove obsoletes directives.
>
> So even if the primary cause is now fixed, from a quality view, this bug is
> still not in the state to be closed. Or should other bug be opened for those
> point ?

I agree. Colin will probably look at this while checking the patch
into parted's Debian package.

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