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apport-collect 1266737 and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'. If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'. This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266737 Title: error sda: WRITE SAME failed when installing package Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Description: ========== Was installing perl packages using apt-get install command. I saw WRITE SAME failed displayed during the process. Command used : apt-get install perl* on my Ubuntu guest to install all perl packages. I saw the message as below . . . . Setting up perlindex (1.606-1) ... Generating index (this may take a while)...sda: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. done. it took few seconds to complete and later on the process continued. Environment: ============ Host: Power8 Guest : ubuntu hosted on Power8 used below qemu command : [root@localhost ubuntu_alpha1]# cat kvmg.p8.h KERNEL=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-vmlinuz-generic #FSIMAGE=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img FSIMAGE=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img.qcow2 MEM=8G qemu-system-ppc64 \ -enable-kvm -M pseries -cpu POWER8 -smp cores=4,threads=1 -m $MEM \ -net nic -net user \ -device spapr-vscsi -drive file=$FSIMAGE \ -kernel $KERNEL \ -append "earlyprintk root=/dev/sda console=hvc0 --no-sessions" \ -nographic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1266737/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp