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calamares package

Installation failed - Calamares fails to create partition

Bug #1965658 reported by Leó Kolbeinsson
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
calamares (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned
Jammy
Invalid
Low
Unassigned
calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Erich Eickmeyer
Jammy
Fix Released
Critical
Erich Eickmeyer

Bug Description

Installing Ubuntu Studio Jammy daily ISO 19-03-2022
Device tested Dell Optiplex 7040 in UEFI mode

The installer crashes when attempting to create new partition = see attached screenshot

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: calamares 3.2.41.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-22.22-lowlatency 5.15.19
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-22-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
.etc.calamares.modules.finished.conf:
 ---
 restartNowMode: user-checked
 restartNowCommand: "systemctl -i reboot"
.etc.calamares.modules.partition.conf:
 efiSystemPartition: "/boot/efi"
 enableLuksAutomatedPartitioning: true
 userSwapChoices: none
 drawNestedPartitions: true
 defaultFileSystemType: "ext4"
.etc.calamares.modules.shellprocess_logs.conf:
 ---
 dontChroot: true
 timeout: 30
 script:
     - calamares-logs-helper @@ROOT@@
.home.ubuntu-studio..cache.calamares.session.log:
 === START CALAMARES 3.2.41.1
 2022-03-20 - 06:42:38 [1]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
     ERROR: Installation failed: "The installer failed to create partition on disk 'KXG5AZNV256G TOSHIBA'."
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu79
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.467
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Mar 20 06:55:09 2022
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220319)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 calamares-settings-ubuntu-common 1:22.04.1
 calamares-settings-lubuntu N/A
 xfsprogs 5.13.0-1ubuntu2
 btrfs-progs 5.16.2-1
SourcePackage: calamares
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :
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Chris Guiver (guiverc) wrote :

This sure reminds me of

- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/1864787

which I documented on Lubuntu's discourse for users
- https://discourse.lubuntu.me/t/calamares-rare-failure-to-create-partition-mkfs-errors/2774

Duplicate ?

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1965658

tags: added: iso-testing
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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :

@guiverc Chris Guiver

Yes this very likely duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/1864787

Will test another one or two machines today and see what happens before marking it as a duplicate.

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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :

Tested on box AWOW NY41 Testcase:UEFI+secure boot and got the failure - rebooted and ran the installer again - this time the partitions were created with no errors - I am not sure that this a duplicate of bug 1864787 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/1864787

This needs further testing and will follow up with tests on the next daily ISO

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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :

Tested on 4 different boxes daily iso Jammy Ubuntu Studio 19.03.2022 all failures

see results here http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/429/builds/245845/testcases/1701/results

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Leó Kolbeinsson (leok) wrote :

Retested Ubuntu Studio 22.02.22 daily ISO

Again 2 failures to create partitions - http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/429/builds/245937/testcases/1701/results

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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote :

Considering nobody touched Calamares since January, I'm pretty sure we're going to see the same problem. This might be related to https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1885, in which the KDE Neon devs found a solution: https://invent.kde.org/neon/extras/calamares/-/commit/a87552adab9e6fb03e71e967ccac3a268903ae14

I might be able to fix this with that little nugget there, but it might not affect Lubuntu, so I'm going to have to test it in the calamares settings package.

Changed in calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in calamares (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)
Changed in calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu Jammy):
importance: Undecided → Critical
Changed in calamares (Ubuntu Jammy):
importance: Undecided → Critical
Changed in calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu Jammy):
assignee: nobody → Erich Eickmeyer  (eeickmeyer)
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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote :

Looks like that nugget was, indeed, the issue. Since the issue is mostly isolated to Ubuntu Studio, we won't worry about Lubuntu in this case and the fix can go in the native calamares-settings-ubuntu package.

Changed in calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in calamares (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
importance: Critical → Low
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)
Changed in calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package calamares-settings-ubuntu - 1:22.04.3

---------------
calamares-settings-ubuntu (1:22.04.3) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Fix for kded automount issue (LP: #1965658)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:18:58 -0700

Changed in calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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