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ubiquity package

ZFS installation fails with; Failed to add #4 partition: Numerical result out of range - 2TB+ disk on MBR

Bug #1874524 reported by ole.tange
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
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Bug Description

I have chosen ZFS as file system.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubiquity 20.04.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.445
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 23 21:25:13 2020
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
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)

Revision history for this message
ole.tange (n-launchpad-net-tange-dk) wrote :
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: zfs
summary: - Installation crashes
+ ZFS installation fails with Failed to add #4 partition: Numerical result
+ out of range
summary: - ZFS installation fails with Failed to add #4 partition: Numerical result
- out of range
+ ZFS installation fails with; Failed to add #4 partition: Numerical
+ result out of range
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: ZFS installation fails with; Failed to add #4 partition: Numerical result out of range

Thanks for your report.

Apparently sda has an AHDI partition which could lead to a shift in the calculation of the partition indexes we use for ZFS.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

My guess is that the machine has been booted in Legacy mode, in this mode disks up to 2TB are supported but on your setup sda is 8TB hence the numerical result out of range. To be confirmed.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Could you confirm that you booted in BIOS mode when the error occurred?
Can you try the installation again in UEFI and tell is you reproduce the issue?

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Josef Rypáček (jrypacek) wrote :

I have the same problem when trying to install Ubuntu with ZFS on 3 TB HDD (installer is createing GPT scheme).
I booted in BIOS mode and I can't try UEFI mode because my computer doesn't support it.

Installation on 750 GB works fine as it will create MBR scheme.

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Kyle Tinker (shamrock-computing) wrote :

I can confirm that I get the same error, switched to UEFI, and the problem went away.

See my bugreport here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1875084

Revision history for this message
Kyle Tinker (shamrock-computing) wrote :

It would be very nice if there was a descriptive error message in this case--it was not easy to find the root cause.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
summary: ZFS installation fails with; Failed to add #4 partition: Numerical
- result out of range
+ result out of range - 2TB+ disk on MBR
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