The installer failed to create partition on disk with EFI (not BIOS)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Calamares |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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kpmcore |
Fix Released
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Medium
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calamares (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
|
Dan Simmons | ||
kpmcore (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Dan Simmons |
Bug Description
See attached bugs for longer explanation but basically due to some changes in core software (dosfstools) EFI installs fail to create partitions because a null label is no longer acceptable. There is now a fix in kpmcore, which is what Calamares uses to do this work, that essentially sets "NO_LABEL" instead of a null ("") label.
Workaround: manual partitioning expressly setting labels on all partitions.
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Testing Lubuntu Hirsute ISO 20210220 -
Test machine Lenovo V14 IIL - booting in UEFI+secure boot mode
Connected to WiFi network and ran the installer -
I selected "Erase disk with swap file" and then Calamares crashed with the error: "the installer failed to create partition on disk "WDC PC SN20 ......." see attached screenshot and files.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: calamares 3.2.35-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
.etc.calamares.
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restartNowMode: user-checked
restartNowCommand: "systemctl -i reboot"
.etc.calamares.
---
dontChroot: true
timeout: 30
script:
- calamares-
.etc.calamares.
---
unpack:
- source: "/cdrom/
sourcefs: "squashfs"
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu59
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CasperVersion: 1.456
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Sat Feb 20 20:23:48 2021
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20210220)
RelatedPackageV
calamares-
calamares-
xfsprogs 5.6.0-1ubuntu4
btrfs-progs 5.10.1-1
SourcePackage: calamares
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
summary: |
- The installer failed to create partition on disk + The installer failed to create partition on disk with EFI |
Changed in calamares (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in kpmcore (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in calamares (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in kpmcore (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
summary: |
- The installer failed to create partition on disk with EFI + The installer failed to create partition on disk with EFI (not BIOS) |
Changed in calamares: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in kpmcore: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in calamares: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Support dosfstools 4.2
See https:/ /github. com/calamares/ calamares/ issues/ 1637