[PowerEdge T610] Error installing base system on natty server

[Marc Legris]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

During our weekly testing in the certification servers one of the servers failed to install the base systems.

Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO base-installer/progress/fallback
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Feb 1 18:18:44 base-installer: mkdir: can't create directory '/target/etc/': Read-only file system
Feb 1 18:18:44 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/base-installer.d/05udev returned error code 1
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO base-installer/progress/console-setup
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 10 base-installer/progress/console-setup does not exist
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> SUBST base-installer/progress/fallback SCRIPT console-setup
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: Adding [SCRIPT] -> [console-setup]
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO base-installer/progress/fallback
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Feb 1 18:18:44 base-installer: mkdir: can't create directory '/target/etc/': Read-only file system
Feb 1 18:18:44 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/base-installer.d/20console-setup returned error code 1
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO base-installer/progress/netcfg
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Feb 1 18:18:44 base-installer: mkdir: can't create directory '/target//etc/': Read-only file system
Feb 1 18:18:44 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/base-installer.d/40netcfg returned error code 1
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> PROGRESS SET 3
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO base-installer/section/install_base_system
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 10 base-installer/section/install_base_system does not exist
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO base-installer/progress/preparing
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> GET debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 true
Feb 1 18:18:44 main-menu[473]: (process:26552): mkdir: can't create directory '/target/etc': Read-only file system
Feb 1 18:18:44 main-menu[473]: WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 1
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> GET debconf/priority
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 high
Feb 1 18:18:44 main-menu[473]: WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed.
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> SETTITLE debian-installer/bootstrap-base/title
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> CAPB
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 multiselect backup progresscancel align plugin-terminal plugin-detect-keyboard
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> METAGET debian-installer/bootstrap-base/title Description
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 Install the base system
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> SUBST debian-installer/main-menu/item-failure ITEM Install the base system
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: Adding [ITEM] -> [Install the base system]
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> INPUT critical debian-installer/main-menu/item-failure
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
Feb 1 18:18:44 debconf: --> GO

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.354955] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL}, Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000) cb_idx mptscsih_io_done
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.354969] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.354972] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.354977] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 45 2d b8 00 00 20 00
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.354988] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4533688
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.355016] Aborting journal on device sda1-8.
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.359209] end_device-2:0: mptsas: ioc0: removing ssp device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 0, phy 0,sas_addr 0x500000e113c500b2
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.359214] phy-2:0: mptsas: ioc0: delete phy 0, phy-obj (0xf47eca00)
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.359226] port-2:0: mptsas: ioc0: delete port 0, sas_addr (0x500000e113c500b2)
Feb 1 17:58:49 debootstrap: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
Feb 1 17:58:49 debootstrap: unable to sync directory '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': Input/output error
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.359382] JBD2: I/O error detected when updating journal superblock for sda1-8.
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.359476] journal commit I/O error
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.360592] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_journal_start_sb:258: Detected aborted journal
Feb 1 17:58:49 kernel: [ 174.360597] EXT4-fs (sda1): Remounting filesystem read-only

It all goes wrong from there on in. Looks like a kernel problem to me.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

(Or possibly a hardware problem, of course.)

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Marc - mptsas is definitely unhappy. While possible that its an mptsas driver error, do you know if a Maverick install works, and have you ever installed anything on this machine ?

mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL}, Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000) cb_idx mptscsih_io_done
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 45 2d b8 00 00 20 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4533688
Aborting journal on device sda1-8.
end_device-2:0: mptsas: ioc0: removing ssp device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 0, phy 0,sas_addr 0x500000e113c500b2
phy-2:0: mptsas: ioc0: delete phy 0, phy-obj (0xf47eca00)
port-2:0: mptsas: ioc0: delete port 0, sas_addr (0x500000e113c500b2)
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[Marc Legris (maaarc-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

@Tim

This machine has had lucid, maverick and natty successfully installed.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

I presume you mean that it has had successful installs _since_ it failed to install Natty? Is it still failing to install Natty?

[Marc Legris (maaarc-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Correct, it was able to successfully install on Apr 11th.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Exactly _what_ version were you able to successfully install?

[Marc Legris (maaarc-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

The system was able to install the 20110329.2 natty image

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Seems fixed according to comment #10