subiquity

reset-partition-only: true doesn't create a big enough reset partition

Bug #2061042 reported by Chris Peterson on 2024-04-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	subiquity	Fix Committed	Low	Chris Peterson

Bug Description

In autoinstall, we can provide the following snippet to install the Reset Partition without installing the system:

autoinstall:
  storage:
    layout:
      name: direct
      reset-partition: true
      reset-partition-only: true

This is supposed to cause Subiquity to create a reset partition that is 1.1x the size of the installation media, but the installation fails with:

ubuntu-server subiquity_log.1565[2415]: rsync: [receiver] write failed on "/factory-reset/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi": No space left on device (28)

I've tracked this down to an autoinstall parsing error, where "reset-parition: true" is interpreting the boolean "True" value for a reset-partition of size 1:

subiquity.server.controllers.filesystem:1463 autoinstall: will install reset partition of size 1

The installation proceeds fine when specifying the reset-partition size e.g.:
autoinstall:
  storage:
    layout:
      name: direct
      reset-partition: 6G
      reset-partition-only: true

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Chris Peterson (cpete) wrote on 2024-04-12:

CrashDB.txt Edit (162 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (52.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurtinErrors.gz Edit (7.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)
CurtinInitialConfig.txt Edit (336 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurtinLog.txt Edit (25.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurtinPartitioningConfig.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurtinPopulateRecoveryConfig.txt Edit (352 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
InstallerJournal.txt Edit (312.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Lspci.txt Edit (7.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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NetplanConfig.txt Edit (114 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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SnapInfo.core22.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SnapInfo.subiquity.txt Edit (906 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (997 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (114.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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information type:	Private → Public
description:	updated

Chris Peterson (cpete) on 2024-04-12

Changed in subiquity:
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Chris Peterson (cpete) on 2024-04-13

tags:

added: foundations-todo

Revision history for this message

Chris Peterson (cpete) wrote on 2024-04-13:

https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1972

Chris Peterson (cpete) on 2024-04-17

Changed in subiquity:
importance:	Medium → Low
description:	updated
Changed in subiquity:
assignee:	nobody → Chris Peterson (cpete)

Chris Peterson (cpete) on 2024-05-06

Changed in subiquity:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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