Package: partman-auto Version: 137 Severity: normal (Just debugged a problem with KiBi and weasel, installing an arm64 VM.)
If there is a problem with disk size that means auto-partitioning is going to fail, be more informative: say what needs to be bigger. In our particular case, the system has *lots* of RAM available, bigger than the small-ish root disk that we're looking to partition. This led to confusion - a clear error from choose_recipe() would help, at the very least in the partman logfile. Maybe we should be listing what recipes we're looking at while we're checking them here? It's not like the partman logfile is exactly quiet anyway! Maybe also build a list of reasons why each of the auto-install recipes doesn't work, that we can tell the user in the error message dialog? -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)