Thanks for your fix (it's indeed much cleaner than mine) and I look
forward to test it.
Do you plean to integrate it in any 19.10.x installer release? Is there
any daily build I can test with the fix included?
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The issue stems from the assumption made by the installer that only EFI
systems need to label disks as GPT. I've created a non-UEFI VM with an 8
GB thin-disk and was able to reproduce the issue, but the following diff
was enough to make the installation to succeed:
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The issue seems to affect only non-UEFI system configurations (after
disabling CSM in the BIOS) I haven't been able to reproduce it, so I
assume it has something to do with trying to install ZFS (GPT??) on
disks >4TB, but I haven't been able to test that hypothesis.
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The backend installation disk is a 8 TB SATA drive and the weird part of
the logs is (to me):
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Dec 18 15:24:28 ubuntu ubiquity: >>> Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID:
7AC8DCFB-DB54-8D48-9004-E1540F18BD4B).
Dec 18 15:24:28 ubuntu ubiquity: /dev/sda1: Created a new partition 2 of type
This is using a KVM console offered as HETZNER service.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1856863
Title:
Ubiquity crashes while installing on ZFS
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Public bug reported:
Ubiquity crashes while formatting ZFS disks.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: ubiquity 19.10.21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
