curtin doesn't support arm64-efi targets

Bug #1447834 reported by dann frazier
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Bug Description

[Impact]
Curtin doesn't support UEFI-based ARM64 systems.

[Test Case]
Use Curtin to install an ARM64-UEFI system. We did this testing with MAAS incorporating this MP:
   https://code.launchpad.net/~newell-jensen/maas/uefi-arm64/+merge/260639

[Regression Risk]
2/3 of the curtin changes are preventing code that was running on all aarch64 platforms to just running on non-UEFI aarch64 systems. Since we only supported non-UEFI systems before, that should be a low risk of regression.

The only other change is adding the grub target name for arm64, which is also pretty straightforward.

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dann frazier (dannf)
Changed in curtin:
status: New → In Progress
Scott Moser (smoser)
Changed in curtin:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in curtin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
dann frazier (dannf)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted curtin into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curtin/0.1.0~bzr221-0ubuntu1~14.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in curtin (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Chris J Arges (arges) wrote :

Hello dann, or anyone else affected,

Accepted curtin into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curtin/0.1.0~bzr221-0ubuntu1~14.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in curtin (Ubuntu Vivid):
status: New → Fix Committed
dann frazier (dannf)
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package curtin - 0.1.0~bzr221-0ubuntu1~14.04.1

---------------
curtin (0.1.0~bzr221-0ubuntu1~14.04.1) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot.
    - support installation to multipath devices. (LP: #1371634)
    - know that kernel version 4.2.0 maps to linux-generic-lts-wily
    - support install to arm64 systems that use UEFI for boot (LP: #1447834)
    - fix remaining usage of 'lsblk --out' rather than 'lsblk --output'
      (LP: #1386275)
    - retry 'apt-get update' on failure to avoid transient failures
      (LP: #1403133)
    - run udevadm settle before unmounting /dev in a target to avoid transient
      failures (LP: #1462139)
    - fixes and additions to tools used in development.
    - Add --no-nvram to the grub-install command for UEFI. (LP: #1311827)
    - avoid race condition and transient failure due busy device in mkfs
      (LP: #1443542)
    - improvements to device and partition naming code which allow installation
      devices with HP cciss smart array drives(LP: #1401190, #1263181)
    - do not consider devices < 1G as installable targets
  * debian/README.source fix doc on how to create new upstream snapshots

 -- Scott Moser <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:31:14 -0400

Changed in curtin (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for curtin has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package curtin - 0.1.0~bzr221-0ubuntu1~14.10.1

---------------
curtin (0.1.0~bzr221-0ubuntu1~14.10.1) vivid-proposed; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot.
    - support installation to multipath devices. (LP: #1371634)
    - know that kernel version 4.2.0 maps to linux-generic-lts-wily
    - support install to arm64 systems that use UEFI for boot (LP: #1447834)
    - fix remaining usage of 'lsblk --out' rather than 'lsblk --output'
      (LP: #1386275)
    - retry 'apt-get update' on failure to avoid transient failures
      (LP: #1403133)
    - run udevadm settle before unmounting /dev in a target to avoid transient
      failures (LP: #1462139)
    - fixes and additions to tools used in development.
    - Add --no-nvram to the grub-install command for UEFI. (LP: #1311827)
    - avoid race condition and transient failure due busy device in mkfs
      (LP: #1443542)
    - improvements to device and partition naming code which allow installation
      devices with HP cciss smart array drives(LP: #1401190, #1263181)
    - do not consider devices < 1G as installable targets
  * debian/README.source fix doc on how to create new upstream snapshots

 -- Scott Moser <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:12:59 -0400

Changed in curtin (Ubuntu Vivid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Fixed in Curtin 17.1

This bug is believed to be fixed in curtin in 17.1. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.

Changed in curtin:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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