Ubuntu
lvm2 package

Sparc Guided LVM install fails

Bug #153369 reported by Adam Sommer on 2007-10-16

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	lvm2 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	partman-lvm (Debian)	New	Unknown	debbugs #485427

Bug Description

Binary package hint: debian-installer

I'm not sure if it's just my hardware, but with the latest ISO: 20071016 I keep getting this error when trying to install using LVM:

Oct 16 17:28:55 partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Oct 16 17:29:13 auto-shared: 1+0 records in
Oct 16 17:29:13 auto-shared: 1+0 records out
Oct 16 17:29:14 kernel: [ 249.133470] ioctl32(parted_server:18163): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(41a04403){t:'D';sz:416} arg(ffdef728) on /dev/hda
Oct 16 17:29:14 kernel: [ 249.332304] ioctl32(parted_server:18163): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(41a04403){t:'D';sz:416} arg(ffdef798) on /dev/hda
Oct 16 17:29:21 partman-lvm:
Oct 16 17:29:21 partman-lvm: Incorrect metadata area header checksum
Oct 16 17:29:21 partman-lvm:
Oct 16 17:29:22 partman-lvm:
Oct 16 17:29:22 partman-lvm: Incorrect metadata area header checksum
Oct 16 17:29:22 partman-lvm:
Oct 16 17:29:22 partman-lvm:
Oct 16 17:29:22 partman-lvm: Incorrect metadata area header checksum

I did the crypted LVM test and everything worked fine. I then tried the LVM test and received messages like above. Using the same hard drive I then did the LAMP test using standard guided partitioning and everything worked fine. Thinking it may just be a flaky hard drive I then installed a different drive and received the message above.

My hardware is rather old, so if someone has different results this may not be a valid bug. The previous ISO 20071010 worked fine however.

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Adam Sommer (asommer) wrote on 2007-10-16:

/var/log/syslog Edit (35.8 KiB, text/plain)

This is the /var/log/syslog from the LVM failed install.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-05-26:

Sorry for the delay. This message actually comes from lvm2 itself, so I'm going to guess wildly that it's better off over there. I don't suppose you might have a chance to check this using 8.04?

It feels a bit like an endianness bug, though I'm not sure where.

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Matti Lindell (mlind) wrote on 2008-09-07:

Possibly same issue as reported in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485427

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-09-07

Changed in partman-lvm:
status:	Unknown → New

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-06-02:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!