[Bug 1082984] [NEW] partman to create filesystem on custom partition in debian-installer

[Sean Brisbane]

Public bug reported:

I use netboot with a custom preseed and partman recipe to install
precise.  The custom preseed (up to the partitioning step) is attached.

I get an error like the following (I cant remember the exact wording,
but grepping "attempt to mount" in the questions/templates.dat file
during the install will find the error).  This hapends after the partman
step:

  "The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1 (0,0,0),
partition at /local/home failed"

When I switch to a console view, I can see with fdisk that the partition
#3 (which corresponds to /local/home) has been created, but no
filesystem has been put on it.  I did some tests.  I placed an xfs
filesystem on partition #3, following that I used fdisk to remove all
partitions, and then rebooted and restarted the installer.  After the
installer got again to the partitioning step, fdisk showed sda3 as an
xfs filesystem again.  The partitions had been recreated but again no
new filesystem had been put on (at least for sda3).

I wanted to select partman in the "In what package did you find this
bug?" box; I do not know for sure that the bug is in one of the child
packages such as partman-target, but the web form would not let me
select partman.

** Affects: partman-target (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  partman to create filesystem on custom partition in debian-installer

Status in “partman-target” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I use netboot with a custom preseed and partman recipe to install
  precise.  The custom preseed (up to the partitioning step) is
  attached.

  I get an error like the following (I cant remember the exact wording,
  but grepping "attempt to mount" in the questions/templates.dat file
  during the install will find the error).  This hapends after the
  partman step:

    "The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1 (0,0,0),
  partition at /local/home failed"

  When I switch to a console view, I can see with fdisk that the
  partition #3 (which corresponds to /local/home) has been created, but
  no filesystem has been put on it.  I did some tests.  I placed an xfs
  filesystem on partition #3, following that I used fdisk to remove all
  partitions, and then rebooted and restarted the installer.  After the
  installer got again to the partitioning step, fdisk showed sda3 as an
  xfs filesystem again.  The partitions had been recreated but again no
  new filesystem had been put on (at least for sda3).

  I wanted to select partman in the "In what package did you find this
  bug?" box; I do not know for sure that the bug is in one of the child
  packages such as partman-target, but the web form would not let me
  select partman.

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