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precise alternate LVM failed to install: no root file system

Bug #922646 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement on 2012-01-27

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
dmraid (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu precise-alpha-2
Precise	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu precise-alpha-2
multipath-tools (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu precise-alpha-2
Precise	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu precise-alpha-2
parted (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu precise-alpha-2
Precise	Fix Released	High	Colin Watson	Ubuntu precise-alpha-2

Bug Description

Precise Alternate i386/amd64 20120127.2 LVM

TEST CASE
1. At the partitioning step select: use entire disk and setup LVM
2. Write to disk and accept the amount of VG to use (10G in this case)

RESULT:
Partitioning setup fails with:
No root file system
No root file system is defined

Guided partitioning without LVM works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.18-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 27 16:23:31 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N4010
MemoryUsage:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2943228 2725496 217732 0 37732 796032
-/+ buffers/cache: 1891732 1051496
Swap: 2928636 215948 2712688
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-10-generic root=UUID=d8966312-304d-4504-b854-5ec365ce6e20 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: debian-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/19/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 021CN3
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A11
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A11
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd01/19/2011:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN4010:pvrA11:rvnDellInc.:rn021CN3:rvrA11:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA11:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron N4010
dmi.product.version: A11
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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lp://qastaging/ubuntu/precise/parted

lp://qastaging/ubuntu/precise/multipath-tools

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2012-01-27:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (60.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DiskUsage.txt Edit (578 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (574 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (136.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (329.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

summary:

- precise alternate LVM failed to install: no root partition
+ precise alternate LVM failed to install: no root file system

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2012-01-27:

alternate_lvm_d-i-syslog.log.gz Edit (31.8 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2012-01-27:

partman Edit (58.3 KiB, text/plain)

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2012-01-27

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → precise-alpha-2
Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer)
tags:	added: rls-mgr-p-tracking

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-01-27:

It's created the LVs but doesn't seem to have told partman about them.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-01-27:

I'm fairly sure this is a regression due to the changes in parted 2.3-8ubuntu2. I'll consider backing those out but would prefer to try to fix them first.

affects:	debian-installer (Ubuntu Precise) → parted (Ubuntu Precise)
Changed in parted (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	New → Triaged

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-01-27:

parted_devices strace Edit (34.7 KiB, text/plain)

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2012-01-27

Changed in parted (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee:	Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer) → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in dmraid (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High
assignee:	nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
milestone:	none → precise-alpha-2
Changed in multipath-tools (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High
assignee:	nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
milestone:	none → precise-alpha-2

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-01-27:

OK. There are multiple problems here.

1) parted has stopped probing DM devices that aren't DM-RAID. partman-base needs it to support this.
2) partman parses the output of 'multipath -l' to decide whether a device is a multipath device. Foolishly, multipath prints errors to standard output, such as a complaint about dm-multipath not being loaded.
3) dmraid-udeb depends on multipath-udeb for kpartx. There is no kpartx-udeb.

For 1), I'm going to restore this support; it's part of parted's interface now and shouldn't be broken.

For 2), mostly we avoid this because we only ever install multipath-udeb in code that modprobes dm-multipath, but dmraid-udeb just broke this assumption. Fixing this properly seems fiddly, not least because I can't test that I haven't broken multipath in the process, so I'm inclined to just restore this assumption by creating kpartx-udeb and having dmraid-udeb depend on that.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-27:

This bug was fixed in the package parted - 2.3-8ubuntu3

---------------
parted (2.3-8ubuntu3) precise; urgency=low

* Probe non-dmraid device-mapper devices again (LP: #922646).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:59:12 +0000

Changed in parted (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-27:

This bug was fixed in the package multipath-tools - 0.4.9-3ubuntu3

---------------
multipath-tools (0.4.9-3ubuntu3) precise; urgency=low

* Move kpartx from multipath-udeb to a new kpartx-udeb package
(LP: #922646).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:04:23 +0000

Changed in multipath-tools (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2012-01-28

Changed in dmraid (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-28:

#10

This bug was fixed in the package dmraid - 1.0.0.rc16-4.1ubuntu6

---------------
dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-4.1ubuntu6) precise; urgency=low

* Depend on kpartx-udeb rather than multipath-udeb, now that it exists
(LP: #922646).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:37:27 +0000

Changed in dmraid (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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