** Description changed: - The security team, et al uses lp:ubuntu-qa-tools/vm-tools/uvt to create - new VM images by using an ISO, then updating it with preseed information - so we may perform unattended VM installs. Before ubiquity finishes - installation, 11.10 amd64 (and possibly i386, but haven't verified yet) - sometimes fails. + I am seeing filesystem corruption in guests when using qcow2 images via + libvirt. For example, the security team, et al uses lp:ubuntu-qa-tools + /vm-tools/uvt to create new VM images (using libvirt) by using an ISO, + then updating it with preseed information so we may perform unattended + VM installs. I seem to hit this fairly regularly with 11.10 amd64 + installs: fails ~50% of the time before ubiquity finishes installation + (out of ~10 installs). I am using Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1 with qemu-kvm 1.1~rc+dfsg- - 1ubuntu9 on 12.10. I have seen other filesystem issues in existing VMs - as well but have not been able to find the cause. I have checked - smartctl on my drive (both long and short tests) and there are no - errors. + 1ubuntu9 on 12.10. I have seen other filesystem issues in other existing + VMs (ie, non-oneiric) as well but have not been able to find the cause. + This seems to coincide with upgrading my main machine to 12.10 a couple + weeks ago. + + I have checked smartctl on my drive on the host (both long and short + tests) and there are no errors. If needed, here are the contents of preseed/vmtools.seed: ubiquity languagechooser/language-name select English ubiquity countrychooser/shortlist select US ubiquity time/zone select America/Chicago ubiquity debian-installer/locale select en_US.UTF-8 ubiquity localechooser/supported-locales multiselect en_US.UTF-8 console-setup console-setup/layoutcode string us console-setup console-setup/layout select U.S. English console-setup console-setup/variantcode select U.S. English console-setup console-setup/codeset select . Combined - Latin; Slavic Cyrillic; Hebrew; basic Arabic ubiquity partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Guided - use entire disk ubiquity partman-auto/disk string /dev/vda ubiquity partman-auto/method string regular ubiquity partman-auto/choose_recipe select All files in one partition (recommended for new users) ubiquity partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true ubiquity partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk ubiquity partman/confirm boolean true ubiquity passwd/user-fullname string REDACTED user-setup passwd/user-fullname string REDACTED ubiquity passwd/username string REDACTED user-setup passwd/username string REDACTED ubiquity passwd/user-password password REDACTED ubiquity passwd/user-password-again password REDACTED user-setup passwd/user-password password REDACTED user-setup passwd/user-password-again password REDACTED d-i netcfg/get_hostname string vmtools d-i netcfg/get_domain string defaultdomain ubiquity migration-assistant/partitions multiselect ubiquity ubiquity/summary note ubiquity ubiquity/reboot string true d-i mirror/http/proxy string ubiquity ubiquity/success_command string cp /cdrom/preseed/latecommand.sh /target/root/; chroot /target chmod +x /root/latecommand.sh; chroot /target bash /root/latecommand.sh; ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.287 Date: Wed Aug 22 06:49:51 2012 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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