installer crashed - Cannot resolve path /dev/sdN - Failed to mount /target
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement | ||
Eoan |
Fix Released
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Critical
|
Jean-Baptiste Lallement |
Bug Description
installer crashed, shortly after asking me for user details.
In case it's relevant, this is a fairly old machine (surprised it can run x86_64), but with ~4G ram and an nvidia card (that's not happy with nouveau).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: ubiquity 19.10.18
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.424
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Fri Oct 11 12:31:59 2019
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Beta amd64 (20191011)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
summary: |
- installer crashed + installer crashed - Cannot resolve path /dev/sdN - Failed to mount + /target |
Here is the issue from the logs
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: The partition table has been altered.
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: Re-reading the partition table failed.
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: : Device or resource busy
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8).
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: Synching disks.
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: I: Initializing ZFS
Oct 11 11:21:16 ubuntu-mate ubiquity: cannot resolve path '/dev/sda6'
We used partprobe originally but then the installer fails to mount /target because the partition table is not ready when it attempts to mount it.