[ia64] fails to install and execute elilo

Mind that this is the full syslog, and thus contain material related to #40286, #37970 and #40659. The relevant area is obviously at the end, but since I don't know the implications of the other bugs in this end-result, I'd rather send the complete log.

HTH

T-Bone

Could you try this again, but at some point before elilo-installer runs (e.g. around partitioning), edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/elilo-installer.postinst and put 'set -x' on the second line? The log should then give me a shell trace, which will be a bit more informative.

Thanks in advance.

Colin,

Here's the requested syslog output with 'set -x' turned on in the postinst script for elilo-installer. Hopefully it helps.

Bryan

Colin,

I believe the problem is with elilo-installer.postinst's expectation that parted will print out 'Disk geometry for /dev/discs/disc1/disc: 0kB - 147GB' instead of 'Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0kB - 147GB'. I say this because this call seems to expect the more verbose version:

dev=$(echo $size | sed -n "s|\([^:]*\)/disc:|\1|p")

Actual output:

~ # uname -a
Linux luthor 2.6.15-20-itanium-smp #1 SMP Tue Apr 4 19:40:06 UTC 2006 ia64 unknown
~ # parted -v
GNU Parted 1.6.25.1
~ # parted /dev/discs/disc1/disc print
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0kB - 147GB
Disk label type: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17kB 100MB 100MB fat16 boot
2 100MB 145GB 145GB ext3
3 145GB 147GB 2049MB linux-swap
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

I believe this is a duplicate of bug 38232. I've attached a patch to fix it there.

Yup, I agree with Bryan here.

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