Desktop canary installation fails on curtin error, E: Unable to locate package linux-generic

[corrado venturini]

Try install on Dell Inc. Inspiron 3793
install ended with something went wrong
a crash file was created but bug not set to launchpad
crash.zip attached

problems:
screen 'allocate disk space shows only my nvm2 disk but I have also a sata ssd disk visible also by gparted:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,LABEL,SIZE,FSUSE%,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME LABEL SIZE FSUSE% FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 1.8G 100% squashfs /rofs
loop1 312.2M squashfs
loop2 782.1M squashfs
loop3 61.9M 100% squashfs /snap/core20/1328
loop4 154.6M 100% squashfs /snap/firefox/912
loop5 4K 100% squashfs /snap/bare/5
loop6 247.9M 100% squashfs /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/87
loop7 54.2M 100% squashfs /snap/snap-store/558
loop8 65.2M 100% squashfs /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
loop9 43.4M 100% squashfs /snap/snapd/14549
loop10 124.6M 100% squashfs /snap/ubuntu-desktop-installer/270
sda 465.8G
├─sda1 canary 32G ext4
├─sda2 share1 32G 0% ext4 /media/ubuntu/share1
├─sda3 backupp 369.9G ext4
├─sda4 8G swap [SWAP]
└─sda5 share2 23.9G ext4
sdb Ubuntu 22.04 LTS amd64 14.6G iso9660
├─sdb1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS amd64 3.8G 100% iso9660 /cdrom
├─sdb2 ESP 4.2M vfat
├─sdb3 300K
└─sdb4 writable 10.8G 0% ext4 /var/crash
sr0 1024M
nvme0n1 476.9G
├─nvme0n1p1 ESP 250M vfat
├─nvme0n1p2 n2-focal 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p3 n3-jammy-0103 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p4 n4-jammy-1211 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p5 n5-impish 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p6 DELLSUPPORT 1.8G ntfs
├─nvme0n1p7 dati 266.9G ext4
└─nvme0n1p8 jj-canary 16G ext4
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

i don't selected 'format' but next screen format is selected
screen 'write changes to disk' does not list partitions to be formatted

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apt policy apport
apport:
  Installed: 2.20.11-0ubuntu76
  Candidate: 2.20.11-0ubuntu76
  Version table:
 *** 2.20.11-0ubuntu76 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

will attach more...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: subiquity (unknown)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-18.18-generic 5.15.12
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu76
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.465+canary3.3
CrashDB:
 {
        "impl": "launchpad",
        "project": "subiquity",
        "bug_pattern_url": "http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/bugpatterns/bugpatterns.xml"
     }
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 31 13:23:52 2022
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220131)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: subiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

attaching installer.zip

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

attaching curtin.zip

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

attaching snapshots.zip with all snapshots from installation plus gparted and the list appearing when i try to submit bug from crash file and saying 'the crashed program seems to use third-party...

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

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/1959579

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The canary installation fails if you are not connected to internet, the curtin log has

E: Unable to locate package linux-generic

the desktop iso includes linux-generic-hwe-20.04 but subiquity or curtin don't seem to handle that alternative option?

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

But I was connected to internet via wifi using my smartphone as hotspot network name 'corado'
see ubuntu_desktop_installer.log
2022-01-31 11:01:39.179887 DEBUG connect_to_internet: Update access points: [AccessPoint(ssid: corado)] (WifiDevice(vendor: Qualcomm Atheros, model: QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter, state: activated))
and also Screenshot from 2022-01-31 12-02-01.png from screenshot.zip

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

Seb and I discussed this in another channel.
The plan is to take advantage of the ability of Subiquity to read the default kernel metapackage name from the live environment from the file "/run/kernel-meta-package"
https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/blob/47ed7dbb9b01a22b45dcdd7fbb8a814d5741f3e2/subiquity/server/controllers/kernel.py#L46

So there is no plan to change Subiquity for this for now, but we may later want a kernel API so that the installer client can choose this programmatically.

Adding a livecd-rootfs task, since that's presumably where the change will be done.
Removing the incoming tag for the same reason.