Installer crashes with error about zpool even when ZFS formatted disks aren't selected

[Adam Baxter]

After selecting partitioning setup and NOT changing the partitions on my zpool drives, the installer tries to do something strange and crashes because it (thankfully) can't find the zpool utility.

[Adam Baxter (voltagex)]

Please let me know if other logs are required.

[Adam Baxter (voltagex)]

There was probably a 20 second delay between hitting Continue and the crash message coming up

[Adam Baxter (voltagex)]

FWIW, I can also reproduce this issue on the system when the SATA controllers on the box are *disabled* and the only devices available are the ATEN virtual/BMC ISO device and the USB 3 drive I was planning to use for a boot disk.

SHA256 of installer: A825805899310626474EC22340BF42B69CCB222AEB0FF1ED481793FA3E81CBFB
From https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/18.04.1/ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Thank for the bug report and attaching the logs.

The error present in the logs is related to not having zfsutils-linux package install, however curtin can handle and ignore this.

This has been fixed already and is a duplicate of this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1782744

curtin will need to SRU back to Bionic and then subiquity can pull in the fix.

[Adam Baxter (voltagex)]

Is this still true even when I don't want the installer touching any ZFS
formatted drives? What does all this mean to ne who just wants to install a
system on a box? Am I waiting for the next point release?

On Fri, 21 Sep. 2018, 19:41 Ryan Harper, <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1782744 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1782744
>
> Thank for the bug report and attaching the logs.
>
> The error present in the logs is related to not having zfsutils-linux
> package install, however curtin can handle and ignore this.
>
> This has been fixed already and is a duplicate of this bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1782744
>
> curtin will need to SRU back to Bionic and then subiquity can pull in
> the fix.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1782744
> Install failed on disk previously used for ZFS
>
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> Title:
> Installer crashes with error about zpool even when ZFS formatted disks
> aren't selected
>
> Status in subiquity:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> After selecting partitioning setup and NOT changing the partitions on
> my zpool drives, the installer tries to do something strange and
> crashes because it (thankfully) can't find the zpool utility.
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