[11:54] jibel: Has bug 1059619 been reproducible with any image since 2012-10-08? I have a suspicion that an image-building change may have avoided it. [11:54] Launchpad bug 1059619 in grub-installer "Installation hangs on: grub-mount /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/os-prober/mount" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1059619 [11:55] Which would be nice. [12:14] cjwatson, I haven't reproduced it with yesterdays and todays images on i386 and amd64 and the 2 machines I had this problem. I'll close it. [12:15] Yay [12:16] xnox: Is the udisks2 port of usb-creator still happening? [12:17] cjwatson: I didn't start it. Did read a bit about udisks2. Something needs to happen: e.g. wrap usb-creator to startup udisks1 bus... or port to udisks2. [12:17] as far as I can see, usb-creator is not usable in quantal right now. [15:59] xnox: barry and I were able to use usb-creator in quantal [16:00] I think it depends a bit on whether udisks-daemon manages to start, doesn't it? [16:00] bdmurray: interesting. I wasn't. I got "error communicating" with something over dbus... [16:00] cjwatson: well, I was really hoping not to have to write that preseed generator in perl, but it turned out to be the easiest way to do it (based on debconf-get-selections). I'm getting something that looks reasonable generated now. Will do some tests this afternoon. [16:01] stgraber: \0/ [16:01] cjwatson: I'm basically skipping any entry where the current value is identical to the default value and I'm skipping all partman-* keys [16:01] Neat. I suspect it will need a bit more fine-tuning than that, though - you'll probably want to go over it rather carefully against the installation-guide [16:01] that gives me a 50 lines long preseed file for a standard server install with just ssh selected in tasksel, so that seems reasonable [16:02] stgraber: curious about skipping partman-* keys. can we not select some partman-auto key there? [16:02] cjwatson: yeah, the blacklist should be flexible enough to block any other yet we want. Already spotted a few more. [16:03] xnox: the plan for the initial implementation was not to touch partman, for the final implementation we'll probably want at least partman-auto to work [16:03] xnox: not sure how easily we can reconstruct a reasonable recipe post-install though, so manual may remain unsupported [16:03] * xnox was pondering about "partman" mini-settings: default to ext4/xfs/btrfs/crypto/lvm/raid. [16:05] cause apparently partman is the hardest bit in pre-seeding, especially all the various confirm questions partman asks much depending on what happens to be there on the installed system. [16:05] partman/default_filesystem does the fs default [16:06] kickseed just slams in a bunch of confirm preseeds [16:06] you could check what it does [17:20] cjwatson: so I found 2 ubiquity bugs with the fixed version of apt and using ubiquity 2.12.5 where there was an error message from pluginstall regarding 'Problem with MergeList' [17:22] I was wondering if there were any changes in ubiquity that might have dealt with apt lists [17:23] one of them is bug 1063261 [17:23] Launchpad bug 1063261 in ubiquity "Ubuntu12.10 Installer crashed - "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1705, in " [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1063261 [17:24] I don't think it touches apt lists directly [17:24] Fully booked right now though