[Bug 1847806] Re: eoan: ppc64el install on pseries-eoan VM fails to install

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

This was a glibc vs qemu-emulation issue.
Glibc versions in >=Eoan failed with the Qemu versions <=Focal.

In coordination with IBM everyone agreed that emulation isn't a primary
use case and that backports would therefore not be SRUed as the risk to
break something for more common use cases outweights the gain.
Especially now that users can just upgrade to Focal if they need a qemu
able to emulate the insructions (and the Ubuntu Cloud Archive backports
that to Bionic).

Closing the remaining tasks.

** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  eoan: ppc64el install on pseries-eoan VM fails to install

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Fix Released
Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in debian-installer source package in Bionic:
  Invalid
Status in glibc source package in Bionic:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Bionic:
  Won't Fix
Status in debian-installer source package in Disco:
  Won't Fix
Status in glibc source package in Disco:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Disco:
  Won't Fix
Status in debian-installer source package in Eoan:
  Invalid
Status in glibc source package in Eoan:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Eoan:
  Won't Fix
Status in debian-installer source package in Focal:
  Invalid
Status in glibc source package in Focal:
  Invalid
Status in qemu source package in Focal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Using today's ppc64el server iso, I tried to install this on a
  pseries-eoan VM hosted on a large x86 desktop server and it failed to
  install.

  VM: 2GB memory, 20GB virtio qcow, CPUs: 2

  Installer options:
  Language: English
  Location: United Kingdom
  Detect keyboard layout? No
  Keyboard: English (UK)
  Keyboard Layout: English (UK)
  Hostname: ubuntu
  Full name for the new user: cking
  Username for your account: cking
  Choose a password for the new user: ************
  Re-enter password to verify: ************
  Partitioning method: Guided - use entire disk
  Select disk to partition: Virtual disk 1 (vda) - 21.5 GB Virtio Block Device
  Write the changes to discs? Yes

  Then installer stopped and I cannot progress. See the attached photo
  of the failure.

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