[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
--- Comment From cha...@us.ibm.com 2017-04-24 12:05 EDT--- Seeing as the reporter has confirmed that installing / on JFS in 17.04 does work, closing this bug as fixed in current release. Thanks! ** Tags removed: targetmilestone-inin1610 ** Tags added: targetmilestone-inin1704 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
** Changed in: partman-prep (Ubuntu) Milestone: ubuntu-17.01 => ubuntu-17.02 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
** Changed in: partman-prep (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-17.01 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
How much memory does the system you're installing to have? Is is a partition with less than 2 GB of memory? I'm doing my testing on virtual machines, and easily get I/o errors on them if they use the default memory allocation on startup. If I specify to use 2GB of memory, then I have no errors and the installation completes normally. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
Oct 10 14:51:44 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../05-linux-firmware_1.161_all.deb ... Oct 10 14:51:44 in-target: ^M Oct 10 14:51:44 in-target: Unpacking linux-firmware (1.161) ... Oct 10 14:51:44 in-target: ^M Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: ^M Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: unable to flush updated status of 'linux-firmware': Input/output error Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: ^M Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: E Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: : Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Oct 10 14:51:48 in-target: Oct 10 14:51:49 in-target: E Oct 10 14:51:49 in-target: : Oct 10 14:51:49 in-target: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. Oct 10 14:51:49 in-target: Oct 10 14:51:49 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-install -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
This doesn't seem to be reproducible with anything but jfs. Given that the errors following the partitioning appear almost random (but here, most often than not I get a failure installing linux-firmware, rather than making it to grub-install... and running the same command again after succeeds); I think we're hitting a kernel issue or some problem with the jfs filesystem driver. The errors appear to always be some kind of I/O error. I've been doing this on a virtual machine, so I know the disk I've created is good (and the underlying host doesn't have errors). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
Oh, indeed. I hadn't seen it initially. sdj1 shouldn't have any kind of particular filesystem, so I'm not sure what grub-install is trying to check there (I will look in the code now), or if it's directly because the root is formatted in jfs. In the meantime, when this fails could you try running the following command in a shell? You can access the shell from the debian-installer main menu after the failure. chroot /target grub-install -v --force "/dev/sdj1" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
Is this an installation done with manual partitioning? It seems to me like this is an unsupported partitioning scheme. For ppc64el, GRUB typically expects a small (8Mb) partition at the start of the disk to use as a location to install PReP. In this kind of cases, we should still have partman-prep warn the user about the lack of a PReP partition, so there is a bug in this case if that doesn't happen, regardless of whether this is manual or automatic partitioning. FWIW, I know that booting from petitboot is a slightly different subarchitecture for d-i, but I haven't been able to find the special code paths for it at a quick glance in partman; I will dig more once we have the information requested above. ** Package changed: debian-installer (Ubuntu) => partman-prep (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: partman-prep (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: partman-prep (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-prep/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1630017] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails
** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Assignee: Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630017 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installation with root as JFS file system fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1630017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
