[Bug 1277997] Re: Kubuntu Install fail on new Dell XPS8700: partman error 141: "No matching physical volumes found"
Phillip Susi
psusi at ubuntu.com
Wed Feb 12 14:35:29 UTC 2014
You can tell because you will see the raw disk drive ( /dev/sda )
mounted rather than a raid device, which Linux does not support for the
caching configuration. Doing this causes corruption by getting the disk
out of sync with the cache.
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Title:
Kubuntu Install fail on new Dell XPS8700: partman error 141: "No
matching physical volumes found"
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Kubuntu 13.10 amd64 (kubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso) fails to install
on my new Dell XPS8700.
Installation fails with Partman error 141, this is what I see in
/var/log/syslog:
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Feb 9 00:36:43 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: debconffilter_done: ubi-language (current: ubi-language)
Feb 9 00:36:43 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: Step_before = language
Feb 9 00:36:43 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: switched to page Form
Feb 9 00:36:49 kubuntu ubiquity: No drivers found for automatic installation.
Feb 9 00:36:49 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: debconffilter_done: ubi-prepare (current: ubi-prepare)
Feb 9 00:36:49 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: Step_before = Form
Feb 9 00:36:49 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: Step_before = Form
Feb 9 00:36:50 kubuntu partman: No matching physical volumes found
Feb 9 00:36:50 kubuntu partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Feb 9 00:36:50 kubuntu partman: No volume groups found
Feb 9 00:36:50 kubuntu partman-lvm: No volume groups found
Feb 9 00:36:50 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: debconffilter_done: ubi-partman (current: ubi-partman)
Feb 9 00:36:50 kubuntu ubiquity[6116]: dbfilter_handle_status: ('ubi-partman', 141)
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This is the content of /var/log/partman:
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/bin/partman: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: *******************************************************
parted_server: ======= Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/35dump: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/50biosgrub: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/50efi: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/50lvm: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/50lvm: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/52crypto: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/52crypto: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/70update_partitions: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/75auto_mountpoints: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/80autouse_swap: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/display.d/10initial_auto: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/display.d/80manual_partitioning: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/choose_partition/20auto/choices: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/choose_partition/30lvm/choices: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/choose_partition/35crypto/choices: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/choices: *******************************************************
/bin/partman: IN: QUIT
parted_server: Read command: QUIT
parted_server: Quitting
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Live CD works well (I'm reporting the bug from it). The Dell XPS 8700
is stock, I haven't modified any thing in hardware. I'm attaching the
output of lshw for reference.
Additional package info:
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kubuntu at kubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
kubuntu at kubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy ubiquity
ubiquity:
Installed: 2.15.26
Candidate: 2.15.26
Version table:
*** 2.15.26 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Thanks,
Tim.
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