[Bug 1265483] Re: Installer crashed when installing to an Intel NVMe SSD

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Preliminary patch uploaded for testing. Ubiquity upload will follow,
both should land in tomorrow's daily images.

In the mean time, qemu with OVMF can also be used to provide an nvme
device, although the device numbering scheme appears to be different.
Ideally, precise regex/device numbering scheme should be known to
correctly encode disk drive / partition device node names.

A sample way to boot qemu instance, with UEFI/OVMF bootloader is as follows:
qemu-system-x86_64 -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd -m 1024 -cdrom /var/cache/utah/iso/ubuntu/trusty-desktop-amd64.iso -drive file=nvme.img,if=none,id=D22 -device nvme,drive=D22,serial=1234 --enable-kvm

Adjust memory size, path to server/desktop disk drives, and path to
empty disk-image (nvme.img).

Also noticed that UbiquityHook has failed to collect all logs, this has
been resolved in apport upload which also should be present in the
tomorrow's daily image.

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Title:
  Installer crashed when installing to an Intel NVMe SSD

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “grub-installer” source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  New

Bug description:
  Appears that grub installation fails when installing to /dev/nvme0n1
  (or maybe /dev/nvme0n1p1)

  /dev/nvme0n1p1 is the EFI boot partition,
  /dev/nvme0n1p2 is /

  on inspection these looked sane

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  Date: Thu Jan  2 11:09:50 2014
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140102)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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