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Bug#779922: debian-installer: Installation freezes with "The attempt to mount a files system with type ext4 in SCSI1 (0, 0, 0), partition #1 (sda) at / failed."



Control: severity -1 important
Control: tag -1 - d-i

Hi Igor,

and thanks for your report.

Igor Liferenko <igor.liferenko@gmail.com> (2015-03-06):
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: critical
> Tags: d-i
> Justification: breaks the whole system

Ajusting severity since there's no system to break at this point. Also,
released images don't suffer from this issue.

> I take debian testing weekly build from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.jigdo,
> add preseed to it and install in qemu.
> Preseed contains this:
> 
> d-i partman-auto/method string regular
> d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
> d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
> d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
> d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
> d-i partman/confirm boolean true
> 
> Qemu image is created as:
> 
> qemu-img create -f qcow2 newcd-qemu.qcow2 10G
> 
> Previous debian testing builds caused no problem with the same setup (I test each week).
> 
> Problem arised with latest debian testing build (from 02.03.2015).
> 
> Installation freezes with the following error ("Partition disks" stage):
> 
> The attempt to mount a files system with type ext4 in SCSI1 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at / failed.
> 
> You may resume partitioning from the partitioning menu.
> Do you want to resume partitioning?
> - No
> - Yes
> 
> Relevant parts of installer log from qemu follow:
> partman: mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
> kernel: ext4: Unknown symbol pagecache_get_page_fixed (err 0)

This was reported as #779651 against installation-reports and as #779616
against debian-cd. We're trying to figure out what to do in the latter.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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