subiquity

Install of Ubuntu 24.10 fails every time on Virtualbox

Bug #2066578 reported by BertN45 on 2024-05-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	subiquity	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Note that I started Ubuntu bug-report ON my Host-OS Ubuntu 24.04.

Every week I try to install Ubuntu 24.10 on Virtualbox and every time the installation ends up in an endless loop running at ~70% CPU load on my Ryzen 3 2200G, while there is no real disk IO not to the VDI file and not from the ISO file. I tried to enter the terminal Home+F3 but that is blocked. The installation goes wrong say after half a minute, after I did type in the last information. The size of the VDI file is 1.1 GB at the moment of the loop.

It failed on Virtualbox 7.0.16 and today on Virtualbox 7.0.18.

Note I did install Ubuntu Mate 24.10 and Ubuntu Unity 24.10 without any issue.

I remember I had the same issue with 24.04 LTS, but I bypassed it after a while by upgrading a VBox copy of Ubuntu 23.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

I have added a screenshot from the host system monitor to proof my point.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: subiquity (unknown)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 22 21:30:42 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-03-26 (58 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Daily amd64 (20240323)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: subiquity
Symptom: installation
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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BertN45 (lammert-nijhof) wrote on 2024-05-23:

Screenshot from 2024-05-22 21-53-56.png Edit (188.1 KiB, image/png)
CrashDB.txt Edit (162 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurtinLog.txt Edit (113.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DesktopInstallerLog.txt Edit (218.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProbeData.txt Edit (133.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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BertN45 (lammert-nijhof) wrote on 2024-05-30 (last edit on 2024-05-30):

I tried various times again with the same result. However the last time I installed the default version and I did not select to check for drivers during the install. The system did install, but it was difficult to detect, because it ended again in the loop. I had to "power-off" the VBox-VM, but when I rebooted from the vdi file (HDD) the installed system loaded and everything worked fine.

I've tried two extended (old normal) installs with and without checking for the missing drivers. If the system checks for drivers to use in the VBox machine, it goes wrong and hangs early in the process. If I install it without the checking for missing drivers the system installs. But at the end of the install it hangs again and I have to power it off. Rebooting the system from the vdi file (HDD) goes fine.

I tried to install on OpenZFS, but that one fails too, probably because it install the ZFS drivers during the installation.