Expert mode installation fails with error

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1) Start 15.04 installation (as a Power KBM guest) using daily ISO (Jan 11)
2) Append priority=low option during installation
3) On partitioning disk panel select - Separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions - option
4) Continue with the installation.

Installation fails with following message :

                  Configuring linux-image-3.18.0-8-generic

                    Unable to install the selected kernel
      An error was returned while trying to install the kernel into the
      target system.

      Kernel package: 'linux-generic'.

      Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 for the details.

                                  <Continue>

I have attached following files captured after the failure.

hardware-summary lsb-release status partman syslog

> Hi Sachin,
>
> It seems that we ran out of space on / while unpacking the kernel modules:
>
> an 12 08:30:55 in-target: Preparing to unpack
> .../linux-image-extra-3.18.0-8-generic_3.18.0-8.9_ppc64el.deb ...
> Jan 12 08:30:55 in-target: Unpacking linux-image-extra-3.18.0-8-generic
> (3.18.0-8.9) ...
> Jan 12 08:31:14 in-target: dpkg: error processing archive
> /media/cdrom//pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-extra-3.18.0-8-generic_3.18.0-8.
> 9_ppc64el.deb (--unpack):
> Jan 12 08:31:14 in-target: cannot copy extracted data for
> './lib/modules/3.18.0-8-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/ips.ko' to
> '/lib/modules/3.18.0-8-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/ips.ko.dpkg-new': failed
> to write (No space left on device)
> Jan 12 08:31:14 in-target: dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by
> signal (Broken pipe)
>
> hardware-summary shows /dev/vda2 is fairly small. Was that intentional?
>
> df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> df: none 836160 2496 833664 0% /run
> df: devtmpfs 4139712 0 4139712 0% /dev
> df: /dev/sr0 573810 573810 0 100% /cdrom
> df: /dev/vda2 275395 181991 74665 71% /target
> df: /dev/vda7 63427476 53064 60129408 0% /target/home
> df: /dev/vda6 369639 2062 343974 1% /target/tmp
> df: /dev/vda3 5636212 250392 5076472 5% /target/usr
> df: /dev/vda4 2818080 23964 2631252 1% /target/var
> df: /dev/sr0 573810 573810 0 100%
> /target/media/cdrom

Nope. The partitions and their size was suggested by the installer. These are the default suggested values.

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From syslog:

Jan 12 08:34:37 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
Jan 12 08:34:37 in-target: linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-extra-3.18.0-8-generic but it is not going to be installed
Jan 12 08:34:37 in-target: E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Jan 12 08:34:38 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-install
Jan 12 08:59:51 main-menu[224]: on not supported

[Frédéric Bonnard (frediz)]

Hi,
actually the problem is a disk space missing issue while installing linux-image-3.18.0-9-generic . For some reason, the disk layout may be
not enough. But I don't think this is related to ppc64el as I did the test on amd64 and got the same.
I'll do the test with older releases of Ubuntu how it behaves and check if the layout is the same.

Fred

[Frédéric Bonnard (frediz)]

Ok going deeper, the recipe for "multi" file systems specifies on 15.04 the following for / : /lib/partman/recipe_ppc64el/80multi

---
70 800 300 $default_filesystem
        $lvmok{ }
        $primary{ }
        method{ format }
        format{ }
        use_filesystem{ }
        $default_filesystem{ }
        mountpoint{ / } .
---
~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 100.5M 2.3M 98.3M 2% /run
devtmpfs 456.7M 0 456.7M 0% /dev
/dev/vda2 268.9M 177.7M 72.9M 71% /target

~ # chroot /target /bin/bash
root@vm7:/# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-extra-3.18.0-9-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-extra-3.18.0-9-generic
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
12 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/36.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 170 MB of additional disk space will be used.

So 177M free and 170M to install...

The maximum fs size for / is 300M rounded to cylinder size, according to the recipe which is not enough :

Setting it to something bigger let the installation finish.

[Frédéric Bonnard (frediz)]

partman-auto upstream is ok, having a max of 5G.
The package in vivid just needs to be updated to the one in SId (124) :
https://launchpad.net/partman-auto :

partman-auto source package in Vivid Version 118ubuntu3 uploaded on 2014-04-11
partman-auto source package in Utopic Version 118ubuntu3 uploaded on 2014-04-11
partman-auto source package in Trusty Version 118ubuntu3 uploaded on 2014-04-11
partman-auto source package in Sid Version 124 uploaded on 2014-10-06

Debian Jessie is ok, using 124

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Hi Canonical / Brian @brian-murray,

This bug is fixed with these 2 upstream commits in d-i partman-auto:
 - [1] ppc64el-only: Combine / and /usr partitions in ppc64el 'multi' recipe
 - [2] other archs: Combine / and /usr partitions in 'multi' recipes

I confirm [1] fixes the issue for us (ppc64el).

For Vivid, can the patches incorporated, or the overall package be upgraded to sid's version?
Also affects Trusty and Utopic (same package version as Vivid [3])

It'd be nice to the LTS stream, at least.
Can the patches be incorporated / package upgraded too?

Links:
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-auto.git/commit/?id=0d86920c68f0371f2dd784a465d65e114e12d683
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-auto.git/commit/?id=bc194094b21b12ed537325262d74c617a7098e47
[3] https://launchpad.net/partman-auto

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Here's the installer screens confirming patch [1] (in comment #10) fixes the issue on ppc64el:

Running Vivid installer, with priority=low.
Go through Partition Disks -> Guided - use entire disk -> (select disk) -> Separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions

Before patch:
-------------------

- / is ~300 MB
- /usr is 6.0 GB

  ┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├─────────────────────────┐
  │ │
  │ This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount │
  │ points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount │
  │ point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to │
  │ initialize its partition table. │
  │ │
  │ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK │
  │ > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ▒ │
  │ > #1 7.3 MB K ▒ │
  │ > #2 299.9 MB f ext4 / │
  │ > #3 6.0 GB f ext4 /usr ▒ │
  │ > #4 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ▒ │
  │ > #5 12.5 GB f swap swap ▒ │
  │ > #6 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ▒ │
  │ > #7 115.2 GB f ext4 /home ▒ │
  │ > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE │
  │ │
  │ <Go Back> │
  │ │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

After patch:
-----------------

- applied manually (nano /lib/partman/recipes-ppc64el/80multi), slight change due to 280/300 numbers.
- / is 5.0 GB
- /usr is gone
- /home accomodated the remaining 1.3 GB (previously 6.0 /usr + 0.3 / = 6.3 GB, now / is 5.0 GB. Difference is 1.3 GB)

  ┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├─────────────────────────┐
  │ │
  │ This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount │
  │ points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount │
  │ point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to │
  │ initialize its partition table. │
  │ │
  │ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK │
  │ > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ▒ │
  │ > #1 7.3 MB K ▒ │
  │ > #2 5.0 GB f ext4 / │
  │ > #3 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ▒ │
  │ ...

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? > #4 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #5 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #6 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
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? initialize its partition table. ?
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? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK ?
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? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 5.0 GB f ext4 / ?
? > #3 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #4 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #5 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
? > #6 116.5 GB f ext4 /home ? ?
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[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Hi Canonical, @mathieu-tl

Would you have any news on uploading the new/fixed ppc64el recipes for partman-auto in comment #10?

Funny, yesterday there was an re-upload of the old/broken ppc64el recipes in partman-auto/118ubuntu5. :)

Thanks!

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? initialize its partition table. ?
? ?
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK ?
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? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 299.9 MB f ext4 / ?
? > #3 6.0 GB f ext4 /usr ? ?
? > #4 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #5 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #6 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
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? initialize its partition table. ?
? ?
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK ?
? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ? ?
? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 5.0 GB f ext4 / ?
? > #3 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #4 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #5 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
? > #6 116.5 GB f ext4 /home ? ?
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[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Unrelated comment. It seems the bugproxy quite liked that post/comment it's been re-posting often. :)

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? points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount ?
? point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to ?
? initialize its partition table. ?
? ?
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK ?
? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ? ?
? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 299.9 MB f ext4 / ?
? > #3 6.0 GB f ext4 /usr ? ?
? > #4 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #5 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #6 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
? > #7 115.2 GB f ext4 /home ? ?
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? points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount ?
? point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to ?
? initialize its partition table. ?
? ?
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK ?
? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ? ?
? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 5.0 GB f ext4 / ?
? > #3 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #4 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #5 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
? > #6 116.5 GB f ext4 /home ? ?
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[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Hi Mauricio,

I've updated partman-auto to version 125; I'll upload right after getting some code review from my team.

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? ?
? This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount ?
? points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount ?
? point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to ?
? initialize its partition table. ?
? ?
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK ?
? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ? ?
? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 299.9 MB f ext4 / ?
? > #3 6.0 GB f ext4 /usr ? ?
? > #4 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #5 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #6 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
? > #7 115.2 GB f ext4 /home ? ?
? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ?
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? points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount ?
? point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to ?
? initialize its partition table. ?
? ?
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK ?
? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ? ?
? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 5.0 GB f ext4 / ?
? > #3 3.0 GB f ext4 /var ? ?
? > #4 12.5 GB f swap swap ? ?
? > #5 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp ? ?
? > #6 116.5 GB f ext4 /home ? ?
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[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Hi Mathieu,

That's great news! Thank you ;)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Uploaded partman-auto 125ubuntu1 yesterday, it should have closed this bug automatically but I forgot to include the bug tag -- should I take from comment #22 that you've already tested this successfully?

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)]

Hi Mathieu,

I just verified with the new package, and it's all set.
There's no /usr anymore, and / is 5.0 GB.
Thank you very much.

  │ SCSI2 (0,1,0) (sda) - 34.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK
  │ > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE
  │ > #1 7.3 MB K
  │ > #2 5.0 GB f ext4 /
  │ > #3 3.0 GB f ext4 /var
  │ > #4 3.1 GB f swap swap
  │ > #5 399.5 MB f ext4 /tmp
  │ > #6 22.8 GB f ext4 /home
  │ > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE

(please disregard comment #22; it's something weird w/ the bug mirroring)