Activity log for bug #1768230

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2018-05-01 11:45:00 Marc Pignat bug added bug
2018-05-01 11:46:36 Marc Pignat attachment added /var/log/installer/partman https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1768230/+attachment/5131366/+files/partman
2018-05-01 11:47:21 Marc Pignat attachment added /var/log/installer/syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1768230/+attachment/5131367/+files/syslog
2018-05-01 19:45:34 Launchpad Janitor ubiquity (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2018-05-03 08:22:16 Niels van Velzen bug added subscriber Niels van Velzen
2018-05-03 19:59:03 Dimitrios Symeonidis bug added subscriber Dimitrios Symeonidis
2018-05-07 20:36:37 Peter Valdemar Mørch attachment added Screenshot https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1768230/+attachment/5135628/+files/Screenshot_2018-05-07_22-24-04.png
2018-05-08 19:13:45 Janne Snabb bug added subscriber Janne Snabb
2018-05-08 19:31:57 Dimitrios Symeonidis removed subscriber Dimitrios Symeonidis
2018-05-14 12:30:45 Lorenz Pressler bug added subscriber Lorenz Pressler
2018-05-21 16:49:50 sonicsteve bug added subscriber sonicsteve
2018-05-29 08:00:47 thinkpad bug added subscriber thinkpad
2018-06-03 00:01:25 Ross bug added subscriber Ross
2018-06-03 05:57:35 Daniel Mehrmann bug added subscriber Daniel Mehrmann
2018-06-05 14:37:27 Paul Gray bug added subscriber Paul Gray
2018-06-07 13:37:08 Adrian Panella bug added subscriber Adrian Panella
2018-06-11 11:13:14 Amoki bug added subscriber Amoki
2018-06-12 11:24:29 Alexander bug added subscriber Alexander
2018-06-14 11:53:41 Groobson bug added subscriber Groobson
2018-06-14 12:39:47 Jean-Baptiste Lallement tags rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming
2018-06-14 14:39:04 Jean-Baptiste Lallement affects ubiquity (Ubuntu) initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
2018-06-14 14:41:55 Jean-Baptiste Lallement bug added subscriber Jean-Baptiste Lallement
2018-06-14 15:21:37 Steve Langasek initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): assignee Steve Langasek (vorlon)
2018-06-15 05:16:46 Steve Langasek bug task added ubiquity (Ubuntu)
2018-06-15 05:19:11 Steve Langasek ubiquity (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2018-06-15 05:19:11 Steve Langasek ubiquity (Ubuntu): status New Triaged
2018-06-15 05:24:15 Steve Langasek initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): status Confirmed In Progress
2018-06-15 05:24:17 Steve Langasek initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2018-06-15 05:46:05 Steve Langasek description After choosing "Erase disk and install ubuntu" + "Use LVM with the new Ubuntu installation", the system is very slow to reboot. It shows the message : "WARNING:Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.", then waits 32 seconds, then continues as it should. I think this is a ubiquity bug, since the d-i based installer is not affected. - ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso (a55353d837cbf7bc006cf49eeff05ae5044e757498e30643a9199b9a25bc9a34) : affected - xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso (7c24318d3b1de1efd584b5aea034ce1aafd2d0f06c59812d989a5fc95bf947e3) : affected - ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64.iso (a7f5c7b0cdd0e9560d78f1e47660e066353bb8a79eb78d1fc3f4ea62a07e6cbc) : not affected [SRU Justification] A regression in initramfs-tools causes it to autogenerate config in the initramfs saying to resume from any available swap devices, but references the swap device by UUID, which is not a canonical form for referring to LVM volumes (because of snapshotting, they are not unique). Ubiquity also generates a file in /etc at install time which references the swap partition in the same way. Since the lvm2 initramfs hooks also only activate precisely those LVs that are detected as needed at boot, this adds an inappropriate 30-second boot delay to any system with swap on LVM, which includes any desktop system that was configured with LVM (but not full-disk encryption) at install time. [Test case] 1. Install using the "Use LVM" option in the desktop installer. 4. Reboot. 5. Verify that dmesg shows a 30-second delay before mounting the root filesystem. 6. Install initramfs-tools from bionic-proposed. 7. Reboot. 8. Verify that dmesg no longer shows a 30-second delay before mounting the root filesystem. 9. Install using the bionic daily image that contains the ubiquity from bionic-proposed. 10. Reboot. 11. Verify that /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume is not present and that there is no delay before mounting the root filesystem. [Regression potential] This makes changes to shell scripts, and shell is a perilous language. An unnoticed bug could cause all initramfs generation, and thus all kernel installation, to fail for some users. A regression could also cause a user to lose hiberation support that they currently have. [Original description] After choosing "Erase disk and install ubuntu" + "Use LVM with the new Ubuntu installation", the system is very slow to reboot. It shows the message : "WARNING:Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.", then waits 32 seconds, then continues as it should. I think this is a ubiquity bug, since the d-i based installer is not affected.  - ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso (a55353d837cbf7bc006cf49eeff05ae5044e757498e30643a9199b9a25bc9a34) : affected  - xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso (7c24318d3b1de1efd584b5aea034ce1aafd2d0f06c59812d989a5fc95bf947e3) : affected  - ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64.iso (a7f5c7b0cdd0e9560d78f1e47660e066353bb8a79eb78d1fc3f4ea62a07e6cbc) : not affected
2018-06-15 06:06:14 Launchpad Janitor merge proposal linked https://code.launchpad.net/~vorlon/ubiquity/+git/ubiquity/+merge/348033
2018-06-15 06:09:40 Launchpad Janitor merge proposal linked https://code.launchpad.net/~vorlon/ubiquity/+git/ubiquity/+merge/348034
2018-06-15 06:10:42 Steve Langasek ubiquity (Ubuntu): status Triaged In Progress
2018-06-15 18:10:08 Emmett Keyser bug added subscriber Emmett Keyser
2018-06-15 18:22:46 Brian Murray bug added subscriber Brian Murray
2018-06-15 23:40:07 Launchpad Janitor initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Released
2018-06-19 18:34:22 Łukasz Zemczak initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status New Fix Committed
2018-06-19 18:34:24 Łukasz Zemczak bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2018-06-19 18:34:28 Łukasz Zemczak bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2018-06-19 18:34:34 Łukasz Zemczak tags rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2018-06-20 08:39:09 Marc Pignat tags rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-bionic rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-failed-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2018-06-20 17:06:16 Ubuntu QA Website tags rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-failed-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-failed-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2018-06-21 07:29:17 Thomas bug added subscriber Thomas
2018-06-25 20:01:22 Launchpad Janitor ubiquity (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Released
2018-06-26 23:16:25 Lincoln Carvalho bug added subscriber Lincoln Carvalho
2018-07-14 14:42:50 Dan Aur attachment added bug screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1768230/+attachment/5163578/+files/lvm%20error.jpg
2018-07-23 06:25:30 Thanos Koukoulis bug added subscriber Thanos Koukoulis
2018-08-20 15:27:01 Emmett Keyser removed subscriber Emmett Keyser
2018-08-22 14:54:42 Moritz Hassert bug added subscriber Moritz Hassert
2018-08-23 07:50:30 Benjamin Baumer bug added subscriber Benjamin Baumer
2018-08-27 06:48:58 Calvin Leung bug added subscriber Calvin Leung
2018-08-28 16:10:52 Sarah C bug added subscriber Sarah C
2018-09-07 10:06:39 Richard Bagnall bug added subscriber Richard Bagnall
2018-09-09 12:39:12 Christian Zettel bug added subscriber Christian Zettel
2018-09-24 16:07:10 Daniel bug added subscriber Daniel
2018-09-24 20:05:24 Janne Snabb initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status Fix Committed Confirmed
2018-10-17 07:49:10 dowchu drukpa bug added subscriber dowchu drukpa
2018-11-12 21:40:33 Peter Goodall bug added subscriber Peter Goodall
2018-12-07 06:36:30 cboettig bug added subscriber cboettig
2018-12-07 22:29:25 Eduard Hasenleithner bug added subscriber Eduard Hasenleithner
2018-12-20 10:41:09 Raoul Scarazzini bug added subscriber Raoul Scarazzini
2019-01-17 23:32:23 Brian Murray initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): milestone ubuntu-18.04.2
2019-01-24 15:55:58 Brian Murray initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): assignee Brian Murray (brian-murray)
2019-01-24 15:56:00 Brian Murray initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status Confirmed In Progress
2019-01-24 16:33:21 Łukasz Zemczak initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status In Progress Fix Committed
2019-01-24 16:33:35 Łukasz Zemczak tags iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-failed-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2019-01-24 18:36:37 Marc Pignat tags iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-bionic iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-failed-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2019-01-25 23:46:49 Brian Murray ubiquity (Ubuntu Bionic): status New Fix Committed
2019-01-25 23:47:05 Brian Murray tags iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-failed-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2019-01-28 16:57:56 Brian Murray tags iso-testing rls-bb-incoming rls-cc-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-bionic iso-testing verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2019-01-29 10:18:44 Mantas Kriaučiūnas bug added subscriber Mantas Kriaučiūnas
2019-01-30 17:12:19 Dimitri John Ledkov tags iso-testing verification-needed verification-needed-bionic iso-testing verification-done verification-done-bionic
2019-01-31 11:52:25 Launchpad Janitor ubiquity (Ubuntu Bionic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-01-31 11:52:33 Łukasz Zemczak removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-02-17 15:11:33 Clemente Aguiar bug added subscriber Clemente Aguiar
2019-02-25 15:49:45 Dan Rice bug added subscriber Dan Rice
2019-02-27 21:42:40 Daniel Mehrmann removed subscriber Daniel Mehrmann
2019-03-03 03:45:28 Karlito bug added subscriber Karlito
2019-03-04 16:58:13 Launchpad Janitor initramfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-05-15 08:59:24 Urop bug added subscriber Urop
2019-06-03 12:04:01 Markus Kwaśnicki bug added subscriber Markus Kwaśnicki
2019-07-22 19:58:24 Douglas Miller bug added subscriber Douglas Miller
2019-07-22 19:59:04 Douglas Miller removed subscriber Douglas Miller
2019-09-05 05:10:05 Mr Ess attachment added Screen Shot 2019-09-04 at 10.01.10 PM.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1768230/+attachment/5286901/+files/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-04%20at%2010.01.10%20PM.png
2020-01-09 21:59:16 Tomasz Konefal attachment added syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1768230/+attachment/5318930/+files/syslog
2020-01-10 12:41:26 Dan Rice removed subscriber Dan Rice
2022-02-10 01:33:11 Brett Milford bug added subscriber Brett Milford
2022-05-11 09:47:17 罗亮 bug added subscriber 罗亮