On 22 February 2014 07:03, Kenneth Westerback <kwesterb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 February 2014 23:31, Rod Whitworth <glis...@witworx.com> wrote:
>> I can see why this one goes unnoticed.
>>
>> When I grab a snapshot and install on a test machine I make a practice
>> of deleting the k partition because I don't need it and it takes ages
>> to newfs it. (Slow Atom box)
>>
>> Today it caught me. Going through the usual accept defaults (as much as
>> possible) I hit enter to leave the whole disk for OpenBSD and then
>> chose E when the partition choices came up.
>> entered "d k <cr>"
>> then "q <cr>
>> "Write new label? [y]" appeared and as usual I hit <cr>
>> To my surprise I was looking at the fdisk choices section again.
>>
>> What I missed at first was the Segmentation fault message crammed in
>> between the partition stuff and the fdisk stuff.
>>
>> So I just left the k partition in  and all went well.
>>
>> Completely repeatable.
>
> Indeed. The 'q' then 'y' seem to be the key. If I say 'w', 'q' (which
> is my habitual exiting technique) then there does not seem to be a seg
> fault.
>
> Likely fallout from the tweaking of mount point code I did a few days ago.
>
> .... Ken

Which should now be reverted so the next snap should be back to
previous behaviour.

.... Ken

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