Ubiquity crashes with mount points that are FAT16/32
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu) |
Expired
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Expired
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Expired
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Eoan |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Expired
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
[impact]
when installing on pi with ubiquity, the /boot/firmware partition gets mounted with extra parameters that causes ubiquity to crash.
[test case]
see original description.
[regression potential]
this removes the additional mount params from (only) the /boot/firmware mount, so any regression would likely involve problems with that partition. Also since this patches the installation path, regressions may occur during installation.
[scope]
Debian does not include the extra mount parameters, so Debian does not need patching.
This package has been unchanged since bionic. The code needing patching is unchanged between xenial and bionic.
This needs patching in all releases (Xenial, Bionic, Eoan, Focal).
[original description]
Hi, I've used ubiquity as an installer for the Raspberry Pi 2/3. One of the quirks of the Pi is its need for a FAT formatted boot partition. The Pi packages (flash-kernel etc) expect this to be mounted at /boot/firmware. However if I give ubiquity this mount point then it soon crashes.
I believe the problem is to do with the mount options that are automatically given to fat partitions. I've solved this by applying a patch to the partman-
I'm not sure whether this is the correct fix, or a more generic fix should be applied to ubiquity and FAT partitions.
no longer affects: | ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Changed in partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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