https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438390
Bug ID: 438390
Summary: Regression: Installation fails on BTRFS
Product: neon
Version: unspecified
Platform: Neon Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Live/Install images
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
As per
https://www.reddit.com/r/kdeneon/comments/nw6y94/neon_installation_clusterf/
- The Calamares installer does not seem to work with BTRFS on the latest Neon
ISOs.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run installer on Neon Live ISO
2. When reaching 'Partitions', choose 'Manual partitioning'
3. Select an existing partition (though this might be caused with a new
partition as well), click 'Edit'
4. Click 'Format'
5. Choose BTRFS as filesystem
6. Select '/' as mount point and click 'OK'
7. Select your EFI partition, click 'Edit', keep the content and set
'/boot/efi' as mount point, flags 'boot'.
8. Continue installation
OBSERVED RESULT
When Grub is being configured / installed, I get this error:
--------8<------------
Installation Failed
Boost.Python error in job "bootloader"
Command 'grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi
--bootloader-id=neon --force' returned non-zero status exit 1.
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).
Traceback:
File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py, line 477,
in run prepare_bootloader(fw_type)
File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py, line 449,
in prepare_bootloader install(efi_directory, fw_type)
File "<string>, line 5, in <module>
--------8<------------
Also, when mounting the target BTRFS partition, it is empty. Instead, the
system appears to be 'installed' into /tmp.
EXPECTED RESULT
The Neon installer should work fine with BTRFS (and it has in the past, so this
is a regression!)
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Neon Live USB
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I used neon-user-20210527-0944.iso, but previous versions apparently have this
regression as well. As per the comments on the linked Reddit thread, 'older'
images do not seem to have this issue, but I don't know which version(s)
exactly.
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