[Hardy alpha 6] Unable to create XFS filesystems

[Dave Hall]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Version: 8.04 Server Alpha 6
Platform: AMD64
Version: not sure, what ever ships on the CD :)

What do you expect to happen:
Manually partition a disk and select the filesystem type as XFS

What happened instead:
Manually partition a disk and when creating a filesystem try to choose XFS, find that it is not there. Start calling ubuntu devs names that would be in breach of the CoC if reproduced here. Double check. Call devs more names. Start downloading debian net installer ISO. File bug report on launchpad, after spending 5 minutes trying to navigate it (yes I hate LP). Select FAT16 for all filesystems and move on ;)

When trying to install a new server, I can not select XFS as the filesystem type in debian-installer, as it isn't there. I hope his is someone pressing the wrong button at the wrong time, not a decision to drop XFS support from d-i in ubuntu.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please see the Alpha 6 release notes, in which I took care to document this bug:

  * XFS cannot be selected in the alternate and server installer's partitioner; this will be fixed in the next build. If you need this, run chmod +x /lib/partman/finish.d/70aptinstall_xfs /lib/partman/valid_filesystems/25xfs from a root shell beforehand. The desktop installer is not affected.

partman-xfs (35ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * Make finish.d/aptinstall_xfs and valid_filesystems/xfs executable again.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:04:28 +0000

This was due to an ancient svn->bzr import bug, which I fixed long ago but unfortunately its effects persist and still occasionally come back to bite us.