MAAS Curtin Issues

Wed Jul 12 14:15:49 UTC 2017

Yeah apologies for the false alarm! For the record, I hate UEFI! ;)

Tom

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Tom Barber <tom at spicule.co.uk> wrote:

> I've just realised I didn't!! I have a sneaking suspicion the storage has
> just been realigned and will sort it out. I'll close this thread down in
> about 5 minutes I suspect ;)
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Blake Rouse <blake.rouse at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Did you re-commission after changing the machine from UEFI to Legacy?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Blake
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Tom Barber <tom at spicule.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> (sorry, Xenial hosts, MAAS 2.1)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Tom Barber <tom at spicule.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks
>>>>
>>>> I'm testing MAAS on an UDOO X86 and have 99% of it working.
>>>>
>>>> I disabled UEFI to get stuff working smoother, now machines commission,
>>>> they switch on and off etc, but when I tell it to boot into ubuntu I get an
>>>> error from curtin:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Creating config file /etc/default/grub with new version
>>>>  Generating grub configuration file ...
>>>>  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-58-generic
>>>>  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-58-generic
>>>>  /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory
>>>>  WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to internal
>>>> scanning.
>>>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4128768: Input/output
>>>> error
>>>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4186112: Input/output
>>>> error
>>>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
>>>>  /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output
>>>> error
>>>>  done
>>>>  Setting up grub-gfxpayload-lists (0.7) ...
>>>>  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
>>>>  Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu17) ...
>>>>  Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
>>>>  Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...
>>>>  Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 3.8 GiB (4046450688
>>>> <(404)%20645-0688> bytes)
>>>>  no label, UUID=d23e4cfb-d777-4ef1-83c8-6477a6519b88
>>>>  Unexpected error while running command.
>>>>  Command: ['sh', '-c', 'exec "$0" "$@" 2>&1', 'install-grub',
>>>> '/tmp/tmpkw3_14iy/target', '/dev/mmcblk0']
>>>>  Exit code: 1
>>>>  Reason: -
>>>>  Stdout: + pkg=grub-pc
>>>>  + shift
>>>>  + dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
>>>>  Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version
>>>>  Generating grub configuration file ...
>>>>  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-58-generic
>>>>  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-58-generic
>>>>  done
>>>>  + update-grub
>>>>  Generating grub configuration file ...
>>>>  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-58-generic
>>>>  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-58-generic
>>>>  done
>>>>  + grub-install /dev/mmcblk0
>>>>  Installing for i386-pc platform.
>>>>  grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot
>>>> Partition; embedding won't be possible.
>>>>  grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
>>>> installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are
>>>> UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
>>>>  grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
>>>>  + exit
>>>>  failed to install grub!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I install Centos though it runs fine. Clearly its unhappy about the
>>>> internal MMC disk partitioning but its only the defaults and a manual
>>>> install of Xenial works fine.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone got anything I could tweak to see if it gets further?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tom Barber
>>>> CTO Spicule LTD
>>>> tom at spicule.co.uk
>>>>
>>>> http://spicule.co.uk
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tom Barber
>>> CTO Spicule LTD
>>> tom at spicule.co.uk
>>>
>>> http://spicule.co.uk
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Tom Barber
> CTO Spicule LTD
> tom at spicule.co.uk
>
> http://spicule.co.uk
>
> @spiculeim <http://twitter.com/spiculeim>
>
> Schedule a meeting with me <http://meetme.so/spicule>
>
> GB: +44(0)5603641316 <+44%2056%200364%201316>
> US: +18448141689 <(844)%20814-1689>
>
> <https://leanpub.com/juju-cookbook>
>

-- 
Tom Barber
CTO Spicule LTD
tom at spicule.co.uk

http://spicule.co.uk

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