FAI dying during partition setup

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Recently, I've been trying to set up LVM clients with FAI 3.2.4 for  
> Ubuntu, using Peter Gervai's well-placed LVM hooks.  However, I keep  
> hitting the situation where sfdisk cannot read the partition table, and  
> mke2fs cannot create a filesystem, because it thinks the device is in  
> use.  It's reproducible every time if I FAI-install the client more than  
> once.  E.g., the first time I FAI-install the LVM-enabled host, it  
> works.  But then, if I try it again (with the exact same disk_config),  
> sfdisk and mke2fs drop me to an emergency shell.  I would guess it's  
> because it's unable to get the kernel to re-read the partition table  
> without a reboot, but I'm really not sure how FAI can get around that  
> situation, as there is currently no method for having FAI "pick up where  
> it left off" right after writing the partition table.
>
> Has anybody else encountered this?  It really makes FAI unusable.   
> Here's the output from FAI when this happens (from fai.log).  /dev/sda2  
> was my LVM volume:
>

Would it be possible to upgrade your fai packages to 3.2.10? These packages
include a proper version of setup-storage (see also
http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Setup-storage), which should be able to
satisfy all your needs.

Best,
Michael

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