xubuntu focal3 install on sl510 (reuse / & /home) & isn't progressing

[Chris Guiver]

Xubuntu focal install using daily on
- sl510

was a 18.04 install
- sda1 = / (no format, ext4)
- sda5 = /home (no format, ext4)

because no re-size is used, nor a format, I'd have expected install to progress rather quickly but it's stayed at the "who are you" (where I enter user details) and hasn't moved.

A "Problem detected" box appeared...

xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ ls /var/crash
_usr_bin_apt-clone.0.crash

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubiquity 20.04.15.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-54.61~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-54-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.445.1
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu May 27 18:39:57 2021
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 20.04.2 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210527)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

A quick glance and I note

May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: apt_pkg.Error: E:Write error - write (28: No space left on device), E:IO Error saving source cache, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity:
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity:
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/bin/apt-clone", line 107, in <module>
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: clone.save_state(args.source, args.destination,
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_clone.py", line 158, in save_state
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: self._dpkg_repack(tar)
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/tarfile.py", line 2455, in __exit__
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: self.fileobj.close()
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/gzip.py", line 335, in close
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: myfileobj.close()
May 27 07:59:28 xubuntu ubiquity: OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

I don't believe space should be an issue, but the box could have been left in an unclean state after last install.. so I'll perform some checks.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

install was maybe in artful (17.10) days... turns out I have an encrypted /home (sda5) partition & didn't realize it...

I suspect this is the issue.

[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/1929798

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

install was re-tried (third time) on
- lenovo thinkpad sl510 (c2d-t6570, 2gb ram, i915)

manual partitioning; no format with sda1 as / , sda5 /home

On third attempt
- space was created on /
- I installed `ecryptfs-utils` before starting ubiquity

all great this time....

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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