arm64 support

[Andrew Cloke]

The following ISO was downloaded and installed on an ARM64 HiSilicon D05 board:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily-live/current/bionic-live-server-arm64.iso

When setting the username and password, the install system interface crashed.

Screengrab attached.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

The lack of an informative error there is clearly a bug. Can you try again, switch to vt2 and look at /var/log/installer/subiquity-debug.log?

Please note that we're not currently planning on supporting the live-server installer on arm64 for bionic.

[Fred Kimmy (kongzizaixian)]

provide this crash log for d05 board

[Fred Kimmy (kongzizaixian)]

       An error occurred during installation

        Please report this error in Launchpad

        ┌─────────────────── An error has occurred ───────────────────┐

        unknown type for url 'cp:///rofs', assuming type 'tgz' ?│
        │curtin: Installation started. (17.1-11-ga4c9636b-0ubuntu1) ││
        │LANG=C.UTF-8 ││
        │merged config: {'sources': {'00_cmdline': {'type': 'tgz', ││
        │'uri': 'cp:///rofs'}}, 'stages': ['early', 'partitioning', ││
        │'network', 'extract', 'curthooks', 'hook', 'late'], ││
        │'extract_commands': {'builtin': ['curtin', 'extract']}, ││
        │'hook_commands': {'builtin': ['curtin', 'hook']}, ││
        │'partitioning_commands': {'builtin': 'curtin block-meta
          custom'}, 'curthooks_commands': {'builtin': ['curtin', ││
        │'curthooks']}, 'late_commands': {'builtin': []}, █│
        │'network_commands': {'builtin': ['curtin', 'net-meta', ││
        │'auto']}, 'apply_net_commands': {'builtin': []}, 'install': ││
        │{'log_file': '/var/log/curtin/install.log', ││
        │'save_install_config': ││
        │'/var/log/installer/curtin-install-cfg.yaml', ││
        │'save_install_log': '/var/log/installer/curtin-install.log',││
        │'target': '/target', 'unmount': 'disabled'}, 'network': ││
        │{'ethernets': {'enahisic2i0': {'addresses': [], 'dhcp4': ││
        │True}}, 'version': 2}, 'reporting': {'subiquity': ││
        │{'endpoint': 'http://[::1]:38335/', 'type': 'webhook'}}, █│
        │'storage': {'config': [{'id': 'disk-1', 'type': 'disk', ││
        │'ptable': 'gpt', 'serial': ││
        │'36101b5442bcc700020dcda073bb78f47', 'path': '/dev/sdb', ││
        │'model': 'AVAGO', 'grub_device': True}, {'id': 'part-0', ││
        │'type': 'partition', 'number': 1, 'device': 'disk-1', ││
        │'size': 536870912, 'flag': 'boot'}, {'id': 'part-1', 'type':││
        │'partition', 'number': 2, 'device': 'disk-1', 'size': ││
        │3999460753408}, {'id': 'fs-0', 'type': 'format', 'fstype': ││
        │'fat32', 'volume': 'part-0'}, {'id': 'fs-1', 'type': ││
        │'format', 'fstype': 'ext4', 'volume': 'part-1'}, {'id': █│
        │'mount-1', 'type': 'mount', 'device': 'fs-1', 'path': '/'}, ││
        │{'id': 'mount-0', 'type': 'mount', 'device': 'fs-0', 'path':││
        │'/boot/efi'}], 'version': 1}, 'write_files': ││
        │{'etc_default_keyboard': {'content': '# KEYBOARD ││
        │CONFIGURATION FILE\n\n# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.││
        │\n\nXKBMODEL="pc105"\nXKBLAYOUT="us"\nXKBVARIANT=""\nXKBOPTI││
        │ONS=""\n\nBACKSPACE="guess"\n', 'path': ││
        │'etc/default/keyboard'}}} ││
        │'reporter' not found in config file. ││
        │curtin: Installation started. (17.1-11-ga4c9636b-0ubuntu1) █│
        │curtin: Installati...

[dann frazier (dannf)]

Canonical does not plan to support the live server installer for arm64 servers in 18.04. The builds are out there for testing, but not planned for release.