[Bug 1065281] Re: Server installer crashed when trying to partition 4k/4k sector hard disks

[Colin Watson]

Ah.  The problem is that libparted doesn't have 4K sector support for
FAT; and isn't going to get it because most filesystem creation code has
been removed upstream.  We need to use something like mkfs.msdos
instead.

** Package changed: partman-base (Ubuntu) => partman-basicfilesystems
(Ubuntu)

** Changed in: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Changed in: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Triaged

** Changed in: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Also affects: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu Quantal)
   Importance: High
       Status: Triaged

** Changed in: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu Quantal)
    Milestone: None => quantal-updates

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes/quantal
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes/quantal
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes/quantal
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Server installer crashed when trying to partition 4k/4k sector hard
  disks

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu quantal series:
  Triaged
Status in “partman-basicfilesystems” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “partman-basicfilesystems” source package in Quantal:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  partman_server crashes on Ubuntu 12.10 server for amd64 when trying to
  partition an Advanced Format (4k / 4k sector) hard disk.

  Disks that utilize 4k sectors with 512 emulation work fine.  The
  installer has no problems with those.

  Steps to Reproduce:
  1) Begin the installation in EFI mode. 
  2) At the disk partitioning stage, select "Guided use Entire Disk" or "Manual"
  3) Review and accept the proposed partitioning scheme and write changes to disk. 

  Actual Results:
  The system will attempt to create a the EFIboot partition.  At this stage the installer appears to hang.   Pressing Ctrl+AltF4 reveals that parted_server has crashed with the following message:

  parted_server[13865]: segfault at 22fa000 ip 00007fa6eb74bee7 sp
  00007fffec3ab500 error 4 in libparted.so.0.0.1[7fa6eb735000+64000]

  Expected results:
  Installation should carry on without a crash.

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