ZFS installation crash when ESP already exists

Bug #1860957 reported by Soundwave
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Medium
Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Focal
Confirmed
Medium
Jean-Baptiste Lallement

Bug Description

Tried installing Ubuntu with ZFS auto partitioning. Crashed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: ubiquity 19.10.21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.427
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 26 22:18:05 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
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)

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Soundwave (soundwave123) wrote :
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report.

Repartitioning failed because the ESP partition of the target disk was already mounted:

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Jan 27 06:17:57 ubuntu ubiquity: Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... FAILED
Jan 27 06:17:57 ubuntu ubiquity:
Jan 27 06:17:57 ubuntu ubiquity: This disk is currently in use - repartitioning is probably a bad idea.
Jan 27 06:17:57 ubuntu ubiquity: Umount all file systems, and swapoff all swap partitions on this disk.
Jan 27 06:17:57 ubuntu ubiquity: Use the --no-reread flag to suppress this check.

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05efi: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is a FAT partition (mounted by GRUB)

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Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: rls-ff-incoming
summary: - Tried installing Ubuntu with ZFS auto partitioning. Crashed
+ ZFS installation crash when ESP already exists
tags: added: zfs
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
tags: removed: rls-ff-incoming
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Focal):
assignee: nobody → Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
milestone: none → ubuntu-20.04-beta
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Do we still want to get this fixed for the beta? What is the status of this one?

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Feels like it's probably too late to me to be fixing ubiquity, I think it's move the milestone + release note.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

It won't be fixed for Beta. I don't have a reproducible case yet.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Focal):
milestone: ubuntu-20.04-beta → ubuntu-20.04
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Focal):
importance: High → Medium
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Focal):
milestone: ubuntu-20.04 → ubuntu-20.04.1
tags: added: dt-196
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to submit this bug report. Ubiquity is now unmaintained, and is replaced by either the Ubuntu Desktop Inser or Calamares starting with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Therefore, this bug is being closed as Won't Fix. If you believe this was done in error, feel free to re-open the bug. If yave any general questions about Ubuntu, please open a topic on the Ubuntu Discourse instance: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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