kernel oops running installer

[Jeff Lane ]

Running the installer for Edubuntu Alpha 2 32bit on a VirtBox VM. VM has a 12.9GB disk.

Installer correctly decided on a partitioning scheme and when it attempted to create partitions, returned a failure (and popped an error dialog up) stating that it failed to create swap space.

There was no indication in the installer as tperhpas one of the attached logs will shed light on why the swap creation failed. I clicked OK in the error dialog and proceeded with the instalation.

This brought me right back to the partitoning screen.

Initially, my only option was to erase and install, because the disk was already partitioned out with two installations. So I chose erase and install, prompting the failure. After clicking OK on the error dialog mentioned above, I was brought right back to the installer, this time providing the options for side by side, upgrade, erase and install and advanced.

So on this second run through the partitioner, I chose again, erase and install. This again told me that the entire 12.9 GB disk would be used. So I clicked Install Now to being the partitioning and installation.

Here's the error from the dialog box, which appeared the second time as well:

The creation of swap space in partition #5 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.302
Date: Tue Jan 31 19:07:53 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Edubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120131)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[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/924455

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Addition: Just tried the AMD64 Edubuntu DVD and it did NOT fail while creating Swap.

The 32bit ISO failed 3/3 tries. AMD64, on a 10.7GB disk worked the first time (32bit VM has a 12.9GB disk.)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This actually looks like a kernel bug to me:

Jan 31 19:02:23 edubuntu kernel: [ 1902.457830] JFS: nTxBlock = 3965, nTxLock = 31724
Jan 31 19:02:24 edubuntu kernel: [ 1903.125464] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
Jan 31 19:02:24 edubuntu kernel: [ 1903.159177] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1908.940254] blockdev: sending ioctl 125d to a partition!
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1908.940260] blockdev: sending ioctl 125d to a partition!
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265022] mount: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0xc0d0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265026] Pid: 6263, comm: mount Tainted: G C 3.2.0-12-generic-pae #20-Ubuntu
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265054] Call Trace:
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265082] [<c158b021>] ? printk+0x2d/0x2f
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265087] [<c10fa48f>] warn_alloc_failed+0xbf/0x100
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265091] [<c10fd263>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x513/0x6e0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265115] [<c10fd4ac>] __get_free_pages+0x1c/0x30
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265119] [<c1132467>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x27/0xa0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265122] [<c1133251>] __kmalloc+0x1c1/0x1e0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265146] [<c15929f9>] ? ext4_check_descriptors+0x351/0x361
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265151] [<c159f444>] ? __wait_on_bit+0x64/0x70
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265154] [<c116df90>] ? __wait_on_buffer+0x30/0x30
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265179] [<c11e6b3f>] ext4_kvzalloc+0x1f/0x60
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265186] [<c1591c1f>] ext4_fill_flex_info+0x78/0x168
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265210] [<c11eaf05>] ext4_fill_super+0x10a5/0x1b80
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265214] [<c12b1ca1>] ? vsnprintf+0xb1/0x390
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265218] [<c1146633>] mount_bdev+0x193/0x1d0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265241] [<c11e9e60>] ? ext4_remount+0x520/0x520
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265245] [<c11d9d0f>] ext4_mount+0x1f/0x30
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265247] [<c11e9e60>] ? ext4_remount+0x520/0x520
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265250] [<c1146fe6>] mount_fs+0x36/0x180
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265253] [<c1111aff>] ? __alloc_percpu+0xf/0x20
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265277] [<c115dc7e>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xae/0x130
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265280] [<c115dd91>] vfs_kern_mount+0x51/0xa0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265282] [<c115eebe>] do_kern_mount+0x3e/0xe0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265285] [<c11605b4>] do_mount+0x164/0x200
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265308] [<c11609eb>] sys_mount+0x6b/0xa0
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265312] [<c15a7a9f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265314] Mem-Info:
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265315] DMA per-cpu:
Jan 31 19:02:30 edubuntu kernel: [ 1909.265317] CPU ...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

And more:

Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1913.904769] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.222836] VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of sda6. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.224786] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000140
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.224814] IP: [<c11d0132>] ext4_evict_inode+0x32/0x400
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225051] *pdpt = 0000000002f48001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225057] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225084] Modules linked in: xfs reiserfs jfs vfat fat ext2 ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables x_tables bridge stp dm_crypt lp snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event ppdev snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device joydev snd dm_multipath parport_pc soundcore parport snd_page_alloc i2c_piix4 psmouse mac_hid serio_raw bnep rfcomm bluetooth binfmt_misc squashfs overlayfs nls_utf8 isofs dm_raid45 xor dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c usbhid hid e1000 zram(C)
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225286]
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225326] Pid: 3536, comm: gvfsd-trash Tainted: G C 3.2.0-12-generic-pae #20-Ubuntu innotek GmbH VirtualBox
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225354] EIP: 0060:[<c11d0132>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225359] EIP is at ext4_evict_inode+0x32/0x400
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225362] EAX: d0de5000 EBX: de3f29a8 ECX: 00000093 EDX: 00000000
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225386] ESI: c15c2960 EDI: de3f2a70 EBP: c2f57f40 ESP: c2f57f1c
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225389] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225393] Process gvfsd-trash (pid: 3536, ti=c2f56000 task=c3d8e500 task.ti=c2f56000)
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225417] Stack:
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225419] c117b40b 00000001 dc296e94 00000001 7fffffff 00000000 de3f29a8 c15c2960
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225428] de3f2a40 c2f57f54 c115adaf de3f29a8 de3f29f4 d0de5000 c2f57f68 c115af37
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225491] de3f29a8 c1e89a14 d9a14b40 c2f57f74 c115b04e c1e89a00 c2f57f94 c117c2b0
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225520] Call Trace:
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225550] [<c117b40b>] ? fsnotify_add_notify_event+0x14b/0x1b0
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225579] [<c115adaf>] evict+0x8f/0x170
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225587] [<c115af37>] iput_final+0xa7/0x190
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225615] [<c115b04e>] iput+0x2e/0x40
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225620] [<c117c2b0>] fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x140/0x150
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225704] [<c117ddda>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x5a/0x90
Jan 31 19:02:35 edubuntu kernel: [ 1914.225732] [<c15a7a9f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Jan 31 19:...

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

probably reolved, old bug