Christian PERRIER a écrit :
Quoting Jean-Christian de Rivaz (j...@eclis.ch):

Unfortunately there is no /var/log/installer/ directory:

That dir exists on the installed system. As you couuldn't install, it
is indeed not there

ls -al /var/log
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Nov  5 22:33 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root             0 Nov  5 22:23 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         17172 Nov  5 22:33 hardware-summary
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            44 Nov  5 22:33
install-report.template ->
/usr/share/save-logs/install-report.template
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            16 Nov  5 22:33 lsb-release
-> /etc/lsb-release
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           993 Nov  5 22:23 partman
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            20 Nov  5 22:33 status ->
/var/lib/dpkg/status
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         71813 Nov  5 22:33 syslog


/var/log/partman is what Miguel wanted to mention.

Thanks for the clarification, here is the /var/log/partman:

/bin/partman: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/25md-devices:
*******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted:
*******************************************************
parted_server: ======= Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=sda /dev/sda
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=sda
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK


parted_server: OUT: OK


parted_server: Note =dev=sda as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 2
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=sdb /dev/sdb
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=sdb
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK


parted_server: OUT: OK



I suspect that something like "Closing infifo and outfifo" for /dev/sdb is missing. On the screen I have at this moment a progress bar "Starting up the partitioner" fixed at 50% and a statement "Scanning disks..." on the lower left. If I understand correctly, those /var/log/partman traces are related to this code from /lib/partman/init.d/30parted that seem to talk to a parted_server process:

                cd $dev
                open_dialog OPEN "$(cat $dev/device)"
                read_line response
                close_dialog
                if [ "$response" = failed ]; then
                        cd /
                        rm -rf $dev
                fi

Maybe parted_server is not responding to /lib/partman/init.d/30parted. A 'ps' give this processes list:

  PID USER       VSZ STAT COMMAND
    1 root      1360 S    /bin/busybox init
    2 root         0 SW   [kthreadd]
    3 root         0 SW   [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 root         0 SW   [watchdog/0]
    5 root         0 SW   [events/0]
    6 root         0 SW   [cpuset]
    7 root         0 SW   [khelper]
    8 root         0 SW   [netns]
    9 root         0 SW   [async/mgr]
   10 root         0 SW   [pm]
   11 root         0 SW   [sync_supers]
   12 root         0 SW   [bdi-default]
   13 root         0 SW   [kintegrityd/0]
   14 root         0 SW   [kblockd/0]
   15 root         0 SW   [kacpid]
   16 root         0 SW   [kacpi_notify]
   17 root         0 SW   [kacpi_hotplug]
   18 root         0 SW   [kseriod]
   19 root         0 SW   [kondemand/0]
   20 root         0 SW   [khungtaskd]
   21 root         0 SW   [kswapd0]
   22 root         0 SWN  [ksmd]
   23 root         0 SW   [aio/0]
   24 root         0 SW   [crypto/0]
   44 root      1356 S <  udevd --daemon --resolve-names=never
  202 root         0 SW   [ksuspend_usbd]
  203 root         0 SW   [khubd]
  204 root         0 SW   [ata/0]
  205 root         0 SW   [ata_aux]
  207 root         0 SW   [scsi_eh_0]
  208 root         0 SW   [scsi_eh_1]
  209 root         0 SW   [scsi_eh_2]
  210 root         0 SW   [scsi_eh_3]
  222 root         0 SW   [scsi_eh_4]
  223 root         0 SW   [usb-storage]
  257 root      1360 S    /sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /var/log/syslog -S
  259 root      1360 S    /sbin/klogd -c 2
  321 root      1364 S    /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer
  322 root      1872 S    -/bin/sh
  323 root      1360 S    /bin/busybox init
  324 root      1360 S    /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog
334 root 3364 S /usr/bin/bterm -f /lib/unifont.bgf -l C.UTF-8 /lib/d
  335 root     14248 S    debconf -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu
  341 root      1236 S    /usr/bin/main-menu
 1983 root         0 SW<  [loop0]
4463 root 1868 S udhcpc -i eth0 -V d-i -O subnet -O broadcast -O rout
 4744 root      1352 S <  udevd --daemon --resolve-names=never
 5212 root      1712 S    udpkg --configure --force-configure partman-base
5213 root 1868 S /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/partman-base.postinst con
 5214 root      1872 S    /bin/sh /bin/partman
 5440 root         0 SW   [jfsIO]
 5441 root         0 SW   [jfsCommit]
 5442 root         0 SW   [jfsSync]
 5456 root         0 SW   [xfs_mru_cache]
 5457 root         0 SW   [xfslogd/0]
 5458 root         0 SW   [xfsdatad/0]
 5459 root         0 SW   [xfsconvertd/0]
 5493 root         0 SW   [kstriped]
 5506 root      1872 S    /bin/sh /lib/partman/init.d/30parted
 5519 root      1352 S <  udevd --daemon --resolve-names=never
 5564 root      1872 R    ps

Should be there a 'parted_server' process ? I have found a /bin/parted_server executable, but I failed to find from what code it is compiled from.

I could be very wrong, but I have this theory: parted_server could have crashed because of this btrfs deflate problem into the kernel, since this machine actually have a btrfs partition form Meego 1.1:

Nov  5 22:23:36 kernel: [  338.431776] btrfs: Unknown symbol zlib_deflateEnd
Nov  5 22:23:36 kernel: [  338.433279] btrfs: Unknown symbol zlib_deflate
Nov  5 22:23:36 kernel: [  338.434232] btrfs: Unknown symbol
zlib_deflate_workspacesize
Nov  5 22:23:36 kernel: [  338.435804] btrfs: Unknown symbol
zlib_deflateInit2

What is not right with this theory is that the problem seem to be related to /dev/sdb that only have a 5MB FAT12 partition and not to /dev/sda where the btrfs partition reside. Other problem is that I don't have any message about a process crashing.

I very much appreciate any help to catch this problem.

Jean-Christian de Rivaz



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