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livecd-rootfs package

Desktop canary installation fails on curtin error, E: Unable to locate package linux-generic

Bug #1959579 reported by corrado venturini on 2022-01-31

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	subiquity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Try install on Dell Inc. Inspiron 3793
install ended with something went wrong
a crash file was created but bug not set to launchpad
crash.zip attached

problems:
screen 'allocate disk space shows only my nvm2 disk but I have also a sata ssd disk visible also by gparted:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,LABEL,SIZE,FSUSE%,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME LABEL SIZE FSUSE% FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 1.8G 100% squashfs /rofs
loop1 312.2M squashfs
loop2 782.1M squashfs
loop3 61.9M 100% squashfs /snap/core20/1328
loop4 154.6M 100% squashfs /snap/firefox/912
loop5 4K 100% squashfs /snap/bare/5
loop6 247.9M 100% squashfs /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/87
loop7 54.2M 100% squashfs /snap/snap-store/558
loop8 65.2M 100% squashfs /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
loop9 43.4M 100% squashfs /snap/snapd/14549
loop10 124.6M 100% squashfs /snap/ubuntu-desktop-installer/270
sda 465.8G
├─sda1 canary 32G ext4
├─sda2 share1 32G 0% ext4 /media/ubuntu/share1
├─sda3 backupp 369.9G ext4
├─sda4 8G swap [SWAP]
└─sda5 share2 23.9G ext4
sdb Ubuntu 22.04 LTS amd64 14.6G iso9660
├─sdb1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS amd64 3.8G 100% iso9660 /cdrom
├─sdb2 ESP 4.2M vfat
├─sdb3 300K
└─sdb4 writable 10.8G 0% ext4 /var/crash
sr0 1024M
nvme0n1 476.9G
├─nvme0n1p1 ESP 250M vfat
├─nvme0n1p2 n2-focal 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p3 n3-jammy-0103 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p4 n4-jammy-1211 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p5 n5-impish 48G ext4
├─nvme0n1p6 DELLSUPPORT 1.8G ntfs
├─nvme0n1p7 dati 266.9G ext4
└─nvme0n1p8 jj-canary 16G ext4
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

i don't selected 'format' but next screen format is selected
screen 'write changes to disk' does not list partitions to be formatted

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apt policy apport
apport:
  Installed: 2.20.11-0ubuntu76
  Candidate: 2.20.11-0ubuntu76
  Version table:
*** 2.20.11-0ubuntu76 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

will attach more...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: subiquity (unknown)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-18.18-generic 5.15.12
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu76
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.465+canary3.3
CrashDB:
{
        "impl": "launchpad",
        "project": "subiquity",
        "bug_pattern_url": "http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/bugpatterns/bugpatterns.xml"
     }
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 31 13:23:52 2022
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220131)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=C.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: subiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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