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Crash trying to install over btrfs partition in live installer

Bug #759503 reported by Scott Kitterman on 2011-04-13

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This bug affects 9 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

I was trying to do another installation test after having previously done a full disk btrfs install. It appears as soon as Ubiquity tries to access the existing btrfs partition, the kernel dies. This is repeatable. I can't do ubuntu-bug -p linux from the dead system. I took a picture of the screen with my camera. I'll attach those shots (not sure which is the most readable).

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2011-04-13:

#1

screen shot Edit (1010.0 KiB, image/jpeg)

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2011-04-13:

#2

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) on 2011-04-13

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added: iso-testing

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2011-04-13:

#3

I had to manually delete the btrfs partition from a live session to get around this bug.

Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) on 2011-04-14

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Lapse of Reason (lapseofreason0) wrote on 2011-10-04:

#4

dmesg.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain)

I'm running into the same bug, only that in my case the kernel does not crash completely, so I'm attaching the output in text form.

To reproduce the but, I created a new btrfs file system (on a lvm2 partition) and mounted it. The bug can then be triggered by running "df -h".

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marksolo (solomark) wrote on 2011-10-07:

#5

I have a similar issue when trying to install to a fresh brtfs partition in the live installer. It partitions just fine, but when it starts copying files it crashes to the live desktop.

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Lapse of Reason (lapseofreason0) wrote on 2011-11-12:

#6

This bug might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/816770

It's not the same line in the source code, but that might be due to new code having been added, so it might even be a duplicate.

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