[Bug 1261745] Re: Cannot create JFS partition

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Thanks a lot for hunting this down.

Last time around it was discovered that is it "normal" for xfs module to
fail like this when trying to mount a non-xfs partition. Usually
modules/mounting is tried in order and therefore it's very rare when xfs
module is presented with !xfs filesystem.

This has happened before, during one of the previous releases, and at
the time it was attributed somewhere in partman not waiting long enough
for partition table / kernel to settle whilst doing the partitioning.
I'll assign this to Colin, as I think he ended up patching this last
time around.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Summary changed:

- Cannot create JFS partition
+ The weird bug around changing partitions is back, reproducible in autopilot (Cannot create JFS partition)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

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Title:
  The weird bug around changing partitions is back, reproducible in
  autopilot (Cannot create JFS partition)

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Found while running daily autopilot ubiquity iso tests.

  https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Ubiquity/view/Lubuntu/job
  /ubiquity_ap-lubuntu_devel_daily-
  test_custom_install/ARCH=amd64,label=rabisu/lastCompletedBuild/testReport/ubiquity_autopilot_tests.tests.test_custom_install/CustomInstallTestCase/test_custom_install/

  When running the tests locally it turns out this is actually a error
  when creating a JFS partition (see attached screenshot)

  Steps to reproduce

  1) branch lp:ubiquity
  2) make sure qemu and bsdtar are installed and have a daily lubuntu iso
  3) from dir ./ubiquity/autopilot/ubiquity-autopilot-runner execute using the configfile attached to this bug

      ./run-ubiquity-test -T ~/path/to/testrunner.cfg --test
  ubiquity_autopilot_tests.tests.test_custom_install ~/path/to/trusty-
  desktop.iso

  4) test artifacts are stored in /tmp/ubiquity.tests

  If you want additional artifacts or additional autopilot options or
  even stop the VM shutting down for debugging you can change the config
  file accordingly

  You can also use the --sdl param if you want to view the desktop. All
  other test runner info can be found in the README if needed

  If any other info is needed contact myself or jibel

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.1 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Tue Dec 17 13:07:08 2013
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20131216)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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