[Bug 1822407] Re: Installing 18.04 to a virtio device produces an unbootable system on armhf

2019-03-30 Thread Robert Merrill
I would suggest at minimum including virtio_blk.ko in the initrd that's downloadable in the directory, so people can skip running half the installer to have it be present. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1822407] Re: Installing 18.04 to a virtio device produces an unbootable system on armhf

2019-03-30 Thread Robert Merrill
To reproduce (use a machine with fast CPU...), on xenial as your host: qemu-system-arm built from source: rmerrill@ubuntu-1404:~/qemu$ git remote get-url origin git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git rmerrill@ubuntu-1404:~/qemu$ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD stable-2.9

[Bug 1822407] [NEW] Installing 18.04 to a virtio device produces an unbootable system on armhf

2019-03-30 Thread Robert Merrill
Public bug reported: Using the netboot vmlinuz and initrd found here: http://ports.ubuntu.com /ubuntu-ports/dists/bionic-updates/main/installer-armhf/current/images /generic-lpae/netboot/ Running in a QEMU "virt" machine, the install goes fine but the result can't boot because virtio_blk is not

[Bug 1821843] Re: 4.4.0-143 (xenial) contains a change that breaks out-of-tree modules

2019-03-26 Thread Robert Merrill
Setting to confirmed because the existence of the anomalous behavior is uncontroversial (it is already documented in another package's bug). ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1821843] [NEW] 4.4.0-143 (xenial) contains a change that breaks out-of-tree modules

2019-03-26 Thread Robert Merrill
Public bug reported: This is essentially the same issue as 1818049 but I am bringing it to the kernel team's attention as it breaks more than just virtualbox: The signature for get_user_pages was changed from -142 to -143, which breaks some out-of-tree or DKMS module builds. In particular, it

[Bug 1818049] Re: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’]

2019-03-26 Thread Robert Merrill
Parallels tools are failing to build for me with similar errors. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818049 Title: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error:

[Bug 1675079] Re: 16.04 LTS Partition /boot fills up with Kernel images, gets underwear in a twist

2018-09-12 Thread Robert Merrill
Sorry to necro this bug but can someone clarify that as of now, a fresh 16.04 install with the defaults+LVM will *not* fill the /boot partition? It was still happening for me as recently as a month or two ago I think. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,