Ubuntu
mdadm package

confirmation screen contains string errors when there are md or raid partitions

Bug #277153 reported by Dustin Kirkland  on 2008-10-02

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mdadm (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: partman-base

While testing RAID partitioning in the installer, I noted that there is a problem on the partman-base confirmation screen when displaying the partitioning information that will be written to disk. Some variable is not being populated properly, as there are null values, or non-replaced %s strings.

I will attach screenshots in subsequent comments.

:-Dustin

Related branches

lp:~csurbhi/+junk/mdadm.fixes

lp:ubuntu/intrepid/mdadm

lp:~xnox/ubuntu/natty/mdadm/natty-updates

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2008-10-02:

Screenshot.png Edit (21.3 KiB, image/png)

Screenshot attached.

:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2008-10-02:

Screenshot-1.png Edit (20.9 KiB, image/png)

Another screenshot attached.

:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2008-10-02:

partman Edit (385.5 KiB, text/plain)

Adding DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer debug text.

partman output

:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2008-10-02:

syslog Edit (412.9 KiB, text/plain)

Adding DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer debug text.

syslog output

:-Dustin

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-10-02:

Reassigning to mdadm as discussed with kirkland on IRC.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/53261/

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote on 2008-10-02:

mdadm.debdiff Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

Patch attached.

Patch also fixes bug #277262.

:-Dustin

Changed in mdadm:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → In Progress

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-10-03:

This bug was fixed in the package mdadm - 2.6.7-3ubuntu6

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mdadm (2.6.7-3ubuntu6) intrepid; urgency=low

  * check.d/root_on_raid: do not write to stdout, breaks debconf
    (LP: #277153)
  * debian/mdadm.config: default BOOT_DEGRADED to false, if unset (legacy
    Ubuntu behavior), (LP: #277262)
  * debian/mdadm-udeb.templates: updated debconf question text to note that
    booting degraded is useful when you do not have access to the console

-- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:09:57 -0500