[Bug 1355127] Re: Install issues with network install with Ubuntu 14.10

[Anton Blanchard]

This looks like a 4kB sector issue with parted_server:

[  518.462635] sd 3:0:3:0: [sda] 73242187 4096-byte logical blocks: (299
GB/279 GiB)


So this disk is 4kB logical, not common. And stracing parted_server:

9452  open("/dev/sda", O_RDWR)          = 6
...
9452  write(2, "probe label: loop\n", 18) = 18
...
9452  lseek(6, 2097152, SEEK_SET)       = 2097152
9452  read(6, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\"..., 12288) = 12288
9452  open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK) = 7
9452  writev(7, [{"*** ", 4}, {"stack smashing detected", 23}, {" ***: ", 6}, {"<unknown>", 9}, {" terminated\n", 12}], 5) = 54

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Title:
  Install issues with network install with Ubuntu 14.10

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Problem description:
  ====================

  Trying to install Ubuntu 14.10 on this machine.  I encounter two types
  of problems during the install.  Both instances take place during the
  :"Starting up the partitioner" step of the install.  In both cases the
  machine crashes or appears to hang.

  In the first case I have seen this:  (Sorry for the unformatted lines)

    \u250c\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2524 Starting up the partitioner \u251c\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2510
    \u2502                                                                         \u2502
    \u2502                                   45%                                   \u2502
    \u2502                                                                         \u2502
    \u2502 *** stack smashing detected ***: <unknown> terminated                   \u2502
    \u2502                                                                         \u2502
    \u2514\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2518

  When I had swapped out disks and tried again by loading Ubuntu 14.04
  successfully and then retrying 14.10 I see this (and it appears to
  hang here)

    \u250c\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2524 Starting up the partitioner \u251c\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2510
    \u2502                                                                         \u2502
    \u2502                                   45%                                   \u2502
    \u2502                                                                         \u2502
    \u2502 Scanning disks...                                                       \u2502
    \u2502                                                                         \u2502
    \u2514\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2518

  The disk size is 600GB and the System also has CAPI-enabled Corsa
  adapters installed.

  I used the following procedure to do the install process (from Mike
  Hollinger)

  wget http://ausgsa.ibm.com/~mchollin/public/surelock/scripts/sapphire_ubuntu_14.10_install.sh
  chmod +x sapphire_ubuntu_14.10_install.sh
  ./sapphire_ubuntu_14.10_install.sh

  Other machines in the lab have been successfully installed.

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