On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 01:10:02PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
>On 02/11/2015 11:47 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Quite, that's exactly how it's meant to work and it's what I've seen
>> in my development and testing. Silly question - is ubiquity trying to
>> run some of the d-i bits in parallel, or something?
>
>That's what I was wondering.  I'm looking at /var/log/partman now and it
>appears that visual.d/35name runs and then I see /bin/perform_recipie
>issue a NEW_PARTITION command to make the ext2 partition ( which will
>later be formatted as fat32 for the esp ), and then the ext4 partition
>for the root and then swap.  Later init.d/50efi runs and "sees" the
>partition that the earlier script "created" even though it has not
>actually been committed to disk yet ( i.e. blkid still sees a blank disk ).
>
>Did we change the ordering in ubuntu or something so that the problem is
>that visual.d has priority 35 but init.d/efi has priority 50 when they
>should run the other order?  I would think that all of the init.d
>scripts would be run before any visual.d scripts though, and the
>priorities just order them within their group.  If that's not the case
>then I guess they simply have the wrong priority.

Hi Phillip!

[ technically I'm on VAC, but my wife's not watching... *grin* ]

Any futher clues on this at all? I have next to no knowledge about how
the Ubuntu installer code uses the d-i packages, which makes it
difficult for me to comment much more.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                st...@einval.com
"I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code 
 is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth


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