According to Calamares' session.log of the failed installation it seems that Calamares deactivates/closes the volume group just before trying to mount it as the install target - which thus can't work. There is already an upstream bug report about that behaviour that I'll link here (currently closed, yet there is recent activity of people still experiencing this kind of problem).
** Bug watch added: Calamares Issues #1564 https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564 ** Also affects: calamares via https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Studio Bugs, which is subscribed to calamares in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2061123 Title: Calamares fails to install on logical volume if no partition/LV is marked for being formatted Status in Calamares: Unknown Status in calamares package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: SUMMARY On Kubuntu 24.04, Calamares fails to install if the following two conditions apply: * target / is on a Logical Volume (LVM) * no device is marked for being formatted STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1. Create a test VM set to UEFI mode (both Gnome Boxes and Virt Manager worked for me) 2. Boot Kubuntu Noble daily image. #Preparing the disk 3. sudo cfdisk /dev/vda 4. Partition table: GPT 5. New partition: 500M, Type: EFI System 5. New partition: Rest of disk space, Type: Linux LVM 6. Write partition table 7. sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/vda1 #format EFI partition 8. sudo pvcreate /dev/vda2 #create physical volume 9. sudo vgcreate kubuntu /dev/vda2 #create a volume group named 'kubuntu' 10. sudo lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n kubuntutest kubuntu #create a logical volume named 'kubuntutest' 11. sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/kubuntu/kubuntutest #format the LV 12. Reboot (might not be necessary). #Installation 13. Start installer 14. Select 'Manual Partitioning' 15. Set /dev/vda1 as /boot/efi, keep data 16. Set kubuntu/kubuntutest as /, keep data 17. Start installation. OBSERVED RESULT After short time, Calamares fails with Error dialog: * "Extraction of cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs failed" * "rsync failed with error code 11" EXPECTED RESULT Installation process runs through successfully. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If in step 15 "Formatting" is selected instead of keeping data (while all other steps aren't changed), the installation will be successful. If instead the root filesystem in step 16 is set to being formatted, installation will also work. So it seems this bug occurs only if there is no partition/LV being specified for formatting. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 Package: calamares 3.3.5-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-22.22-generic 6.8.1 Uname: Linux 6.8.0-22-generic x86_64 .etc.calamares.modules.after_bootloader_context.conf: --- dontChroot: false timeout: 120 firmwareType: "*": "-rm ${ROOT}/home/${USER}/Desktop/kubuntu-calamares.desktop" .etc.calamares.modules.finished.conf: --- restartNowMode: user-checked restartNowCommand: "systemctl -i reboot" .etc.calamares.modules.fstab.conf: crypttabOptions: luks,keyscript=/bin/cat efiMountOptions: umask=0077 .etc.calamares.modules.shellprocess_logs.conf: --- dontChroot: true timeout: 30 script: - calamares-logs-helper ${ROOT} .etc.calamares.modules.unpackfs.conf: --- unpack: - source: "/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs" sourcefs: "squashfs" destination: "" ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CasperVersion: 1.496 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Apr 12 12:40:02 2024 LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Beta amd64 (20240412) RelatedPackageVersions: calamares-settings-ubuntu-common 1:24.04.26 calamares-settings-lubuntu N/A xfsprogs 6.6.0-1ubuntu2 btrfs-progs 6.6.3-1.1build2 SourcePackage: calamares UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calamares/+bug/2061123/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
