[Bug 1410573] Re: Expert mode installation fails with error

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira]

Hi Canonical / Brian @brian-murray,

This bug is fixed with these 2 upstream commits in d-i partman-auto:
 - [1] ppc64el-only: Combine / and /usr partitions in ppc64el 'multi' recipe
 - [2] other archs: Combine / and /usr partitions in 'multi' recipes

I confirm [1] fixes the issue for us (ppc64el).


For Vivid, can the patches incorporated, or the overall package be upgraded to sid's version?
Also affects Trusty and Utopic (same package version as Vivid [3])

It'd be nice to the LTS stream, at least.
Can the patches be incorporated / package upgraded too?

Links:
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-auto.git/commit/?id=0d86920c68f0371f2dd784a465d65e114e12d683
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-auto.git/commit/?id=bc194094b21b12ed537325262d74c617a7098e47
[3] https://launchpad.net/partman-auto

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Title:
  Expert mode installation fails with error

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in debian-installer source package in Vivid:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1) Start 15.04 installation (as a Power KBM guest) using daily ISO (Jan 11)
  2) Append priority=low option during installation
  3) On partitioning disk panel select  - Separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions - option
  4) Continue with the installation.

  Installation fails with following message :

                    Configuring linux-image-3.18.0-8-generic

                      Unable to install the selected kernel                
        An error was returned while trying to install the kernel into the  
        target system.                                                     
       
        Kernel package: 'linux-generic'.                                   
       
        Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 for the details.    
       
                                    <Continue>                             
       
       
  I have attached following files captured after the failure.

  hardware-summary         lsb-release              status   partman
  syslog

  
  > Hi Sachin,
  > 
  > It seems that we ran out of space on / while unpacking the kernel modules:
  > 
  > an 12 08:30:55 in-target: Preparing to unpack
  > .../linux-image-extra-3.18.0-8-generic_3.18.0-8.9_ppc64el.deb ...
  > Jan 12 08:30:55 in-target: Unpacking linux-image-extra-3.18.0-8-generic
  > (3.18.0-8.9) ...
  > Jan 12 08:31:14 in-target: dpkg: error processing archive
  > /media/cdrom//pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-extra-3.18.0-8-generic_3.18.0-8.
  > 9_ppc64el.deb (--unpack):
  > Jan 12 08:31:14 in-target:  cannot copy extracted data for
  > './lib/modules/3.18.0-8-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/ips.ko' to
  > '/lib/modules/3.18.0-8-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/ips.ko.dpkg-new': failed
  > to write (No space left on device)
  > Jan 12 08:31:14 in-target: dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by
  > signal (Broken pipe)
  > 
  > hardware-summary shows /dev/vda2 is fairly small. Was that intentional?
  > 
  > df: Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  > df: none                    836160      2496    833664   0% /run
  > df: devtmpfs               4139712         0   4139712   0% /dev
  > df: /dev/sr0                573810    573810         0 100% /cdrom
  > df: /dev/vda2               275395    181991     74665  71% /target
  > df: /dev/vda7             63427476     53064  60129408   0% /target/home
  > df: /dev/vda6               369639      2062    343974   1% /target/tmp
  > df: /dev/vda3              5636212    250392   5076472   5% /target/usr
  > df: /dev/vda4              2818080     23964   2631252   1% /target/var
  > df: /dev/sr0                573810    573810         0 100%
  > /target/media/cdrom

  Nope. The partitions and their size was suggested by the installer.
  These are the default suggested values.

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