Comment 2 for bug 109475

Hello Colin,

Thanks for the input. I tried merging the script as follows:
1) With %pre, but vanilla otherwise
2) With %pre, modifying partitions to partitions="/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6"
3) With %pre --nochroot, but vanilla otherwise
4) With %pre --nochroot, modifying partitions to partitions="/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6"

All of which failed for me.
Currently, it reaches the "Starting up the partitioner" stage and then continuously prints: "Please wait..." followed by "Detecting file systems..."
The progress bar starts at 0%, maxes out at 100%, and then restarts the whole process.

tail -n 200 /var/log/syslog displays the following three lines over and over:
<timestamp> partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
<timestamp> partman: No matching physical volumes found
<timestamp> partman: No volume groups found

Do you have any suggestions on how I can stop this behavior and enforce proper partitioning without human interaction?