Install (auto resize) - installer crashed

[Eugenia T]

Installer crashed when executing "Install (auto resize)" test case, during slideshow phase at some point. See autogenerated crash data attached.

Configuration: VirtualBox 6.1.18, 3GB RAM, 20GB vSSD, host CPU: Intel i7-4510U

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: ubiquity 21.04.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.10.0-14.15-generic 5.10.11
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu59
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.460
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Mar 10 19:33:41 2021
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20210309)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[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/1918467

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

There is a kernel OOPS in the log file:

Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu ubiquity: cat:
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721882] cat: page allocation failure: order:6, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721892] CPU: 1 PID: 19513 Comm: cat Tainted: P O 5.10.0-14-generic #15-Ubuntu
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721894] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721895] Call Trace:
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721916] show_stack+0x52/0x58
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721920] dump_stack+0x70/0x8b
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721924] warn_alloc.cold+0x7b/0xdf
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721930] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x9e5/0xa20
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721931] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x180/0x330
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721933] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2e0/0x310
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721936] alloc_pages_current+0x87/0x110
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721939] kmalloc_order+0x2c/0x90
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721940] kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0x80
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721942] __kmalloc+0x20b/0x240
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721945] ? lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable+0x28/0xa0
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721949] proc_sys_call_handler+0xb9/0x230
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721951] ? handle_pte_fault+0x22b/0x260
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721953] proc_sys_read+0x10/0x20
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721955] new_sync_read+0x10d/0x190
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721957] vfs_read+0x15a/0x1c0
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721960] ksys_read+0x67/0xe0
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721961] __x64_sys_read+0x1a/0x20
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721966] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721970] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721972] RIP: 0033:0x7f59cec88b32
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721975] Code: c0 e9 b2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 0a ab 0a 00 e8 65 08 02 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721976] RSP: 002b:00007ffced6960e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721978] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f59cec88b32
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721979] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f59cdd7b000 RDI: 0000000000000004
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721979] RBP: 00007f59cdd7b000 R08: 00007f59cdd7a010 R09: 00007f59cdd7a010
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721980] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721981] R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721983] Mem-Info:
Mar 10 18:31:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 5430.721987] active_an...