Comment 0 for bug 551707

Binary package hint: debian-installer

The installer of the alternate beta1 for lucid-lynx alway hung at 77% while detecting the partitions.

A look at alt-f4 showed me that parted_server segfaulted without any further hints.

This is reproducable when the only given disk already has a valid partition table like the following:
~# fdisk -l /dev/vg01/lucid-root

Platte /dev/vg01/lucid-root: 8589 MByte, 8589934592 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 1044 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ebfee

               Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/vg01/lucid-root1 1 994 7977984 83 Linux
Partition 1 endet nicht an einer Zylindergrenze.
/dev/vg01/lucid-root2 994 1045 408576+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/vg01/lucid-root5 994 1045 408576 82 Linux Swap / Solaris

After cleaning the disk with dd from /dev/zero the install proceeded.
The installation took place in a KVM virtual machine under karmic.

Unfortunately the installer is unable to create and mount the desired root-FS so it does not help that it proceeds after cleaning the disk :(