Ubuntu
udev package

alt-install /dev fails to mount

Bug #300426 reported by Carl Karsten on 2008-11-20

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	udev (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	Colin Watson	Ubuntu jaunty-alpha-1
	Jaunty	Fix Released	Critical	Colin Watson	Ubuntu jaunty-alpha-1

Bug Description

Binary package hint: base-installer

Nov 12 daily jaunty alt installer:

Nov 20 11:41:40 main-menu[2518]: (process:18255): mount: mounting /dev on /target/dev/ failed: Invalid argument

~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /target type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
/dev/sda1 on /dev/.static/dev type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)

tail syslog (full file attached)

Nov 20 11:41:32 base-installer: Get:11 http://cp333 jaunty-security/main Packages [14B]
Nov 20 11:41:32 base-installer: Get:12 http://cp333 jaunty-security/restricted Packages [14B]
Nov 20 11:41:37 base-installer: Fetched 1422kB in 15s (94.8kB/s)
Nov 20 11:41:37 base-installer: Reading package lists...
Nov 20 11:41:40 base-installer:
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> PROGRESS SET 108
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO base-installer/section/setup_dev
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 10 base-installer/section/setup_dev does not exist
Nov 20 11:41:40 main-menu[2518]: (process:18255): mount: mounting /dev on /target/dev/ failed: Invalid argument
Nov 20 11:41:40 main-menu[2518]: WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 255
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> GET debconf/priority
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 0 high
Nov 20 11:41:40 main-menu[2518]: WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed.
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> SETTITLE debian-installer/bootstrap-base/title
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 0 OK
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> CAPB
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 0 multiselect backup progresscancel align plugin-detect-keyboard
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> METAGET debian-installer/bootstrap-base/title Description
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 0 Install the base system
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> SUBST debian-installer/main-menu/item-failure ITEM Install the base system
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: Adding [ITEM] -> [Install the base system]
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 0
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> INPUT critical debian-installer/main-menu/item-failure
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
Nov 20 11:41:40 debconf: --> GO

Related branches

lp:~cjwatson/udev/jaunty-d-i-fixes (Merged)

Revision history for this message

Carl Karsten (carlfk) wrote on 2008-11-20:

install_logs_v333w98bx_b.tgz Edit (135.6 KiB, application/x-tar)

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2008-11-20

Changed in base-installer:
assignee:	nobody → kamion
importance:	Undecided → Critical
milestone:	none → jaunty-alpha-1
status:	New → Triaged

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-11-20:

This needs to be fixed in udev. In jaunty, rootskel has changed to starting udev before init, but in the midst of that reshuffle the bit of code that mounted /dev as a tmpfs got lost. We need to reinstate that in /lib/debian-installer/start-udev.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-11-20:

This bug was fixed in the package udev - 124-11

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udev (124-11) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Mount /dev as a tmpfs at the start of /lib/debian-installer/start-udev,
    and create the console and null devices there.
    /lib/debian-installer/init-udev-devices used to do this, but that no
    longer exists (LP: #300426).

-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:44:22 +0000