Bug#840400: Issue seems in nls_ascii module not available

[Aaron Bugher]

I was hitting this exact error message during installation.  I switched
to another VT and did:

  mkfs.fat /dev/sda1

Then I switched back to the installer VT, and had it try again from
"finalize the partition layout".  Now it's proceeding with no error.

I took the idea from this Ubuntu discussion:

  https://askubuntu.com/questions/502307/

It looks to me like the installer doesn't ensure the EFI partition
contains a filesystem before trying to mount it.

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Aaron Bugher

Re: Bug#840400: Issue seems in nls_ascii module not available

[Holger Levsen]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 02:33:34PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Thomas Wuensche  (2016-10-15):
> > I also had that problem and could work around by loading nls_ascii.ko
> > module manually. It turned out that the vfat mount to access the EFI
> > partition failed due to lack of ASCII IO charset.
> That's tracked in #839552.

I'm slightly surprised you didn't merge #839552, #840400 and #841072
then… (*) but I'd like to suggest

forcemerge 839552 840400 841072


-- 
cheers,
Holger

(*) but I'm refraining from doing so myself for historic reasons.


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Bug#840400: Issue seems in nls_ascii module not available

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Wuensche  (2016-10-15):
> I also had that problem and could work around by loading nls_ascii.ko
> module manually. It turned out that the vfat mount to access the EFI
> partition failed due to lack of ASCII IO charset.
> 
> So I guess the reason for the bug is the lack of a loaded nls_ascii
> module at the time when the partition should be prepared and mounted
> during the install.

That's tracked in #839552.


KiBi.


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Bug#840400: Issue seems in nls_ascii module not available

[Thomas Wuensche]

I also had that problem and could work around by loading nls_ascii.ko
module manually. It turned out that the vfat mount to access the EFI
partition failed due to lack of ASCII IO charset.

So I guess the reason for the bug is the lack of a loaded nls_ascii
module at the time when the partition should be prepared and mounted
during the install.

Regards, Thomas Wuensche
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