Manual partitioner: Removing an existing LVM partition fails with exit status 141

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Quantal Desktop 20120904.1

On the manual partitioner, removing an existing LVM partition fails with exit status 141.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity 2.11.29
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.321
Date: Wed Sep 5 06:43:56 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120904.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

From syslog:
Sep 5 06:42:01 ubuntu ubiquity[5087]: switched to page partman
Sep 5 06:42:02 ubuntu activate-dmraid: No Serial ATA RAID disks detected
Sep 5 06:42:02 ubuntu partman: PV /dev/sda5 VG ubuntu lvm2 [15.76 GiB / 15.76 GiB free]
Sep 5 06:42:02 ubuntu partman: Total: 1 [15.76 GiB] / in use: 1 [15.76 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
Sep 5 06:42:02 ubuntu partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Sep 5 06:42:02 ubuntu partman: Found volume group "ubuntu" using metadata type lvm2
Sep 5 06:42:02 ubuntu partman-lvm: 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "ubuntu" now active
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.tLQBP61nwe: not mounted
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.ysaTKEkCq5: not mounted
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.QEaYbbpJpz: not mounted
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.vqzclGY9Cn: not mounted
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity[5087]: Device /dev/sda1 not found in os-prober output
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity[5087]: Device /dev/sda5 not found in os-prober output
Sep 5 06:42:04 ubuntu ubiquity[5087]: switched to page partman
Sep 5 06:42:21 ubiquity[5087]: last message repeated 3 times
Sep 5 06:42:21 ubuntu ubiquity: /lib/partman/display.d/80manual_partitioning: 225: /lib/partman/display.d/80manual_partitioning:
Sep 5 06:42:21 ubuntu ubiquity: /lib/partman/choose_partition//do_option: not found
Sep 5 06:42:21 ubuntu ubiquity:
Sep 5 06:42:22 ubuntu ubiquity[5087]: debconffilter_done: ubi-partman (current: ubi-partman)
Sep 5 06:42:22 ubuntu ubiquity[5087]: dbfilter_handle_status: ('ubi-partman', 141)
Sep 5 06:42:23 ubuntu ubiquity[5087]: dbfilter_handle_status: response -7

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1046168

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

debian-installer treats LVM differently from "normal" partitions. The current manual UI cannot handle LVM, and this has been the case ever since we included partman-lvm in ubiquity (early alphas). Actually this is a "safer" default than letting override everything.