[Bug 1770093] [NEW] Ubiquity crashes with mount points that are FAT16/32

[Adam Smith]

Public bug reported:

Hi, I've used ubiquity as an installer for the Raspberry Pi 2/3.  One of
the quirks of the Pi is its need for a FAT formatted boot partition.
The Pi packages (flash-kernel etc) expect this to be mounted at
/boot/firmware.  However if I give ubiquity this mount point then it
soon crashes.

I believe the problem is to do with the mount options that are
automatically given to fat partitions.  I've solved this by applying a
patch to the partman-basicfilesystems package.  Please see attached.

I'm not sure whether this is the correct fix, or a more generic fix
should be applied to ubiquity and FAT partitions.

** Affects: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Patch added: "Patch for partman-basicfilesystems"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770093/+attachment/5136593/+files/basic-fstab.patch

** Also affects: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Ubiquity crashes with mount points that are FAT16/32

Status in partman-basicfilesystems package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi, I've used ubiquity as an installer for the Raspberry Pi 2/3.  One
  of the quirks of the Pi is its need for a FAT formatted boot
  partition.  The Pi packages (flash-kernel etc) expect this to be
  mounted at /boot/firmware.  However if I give ubiquity this mount
  point then it soon crashes.

  I believe the problem is to do with the mount options that are
  automatically given to fat partitions.  I've solved this by applying a
  patch to the partman-basicfilesystems package.  Please see attached.

  I'm not sure whether this is the correct fix, or a more generic fix
  should be applied to ubiquity and FAT partitions.

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