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[Chris J Arges <1475166@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few questions:

1) Are you using any out of tree drivers for your controller?
2) Are you able to install 14.10 then install a newer kernel? Does this produce a similar failure? This would be helpful in debugging as we could get things like a crashdump or additional debugging information.
3) If able to reproduce with 14.10 + vivid kernel, can you try using the out of tree driver and see if that fixes things?
3) There are many related Avago commits between v3.16 and v3.19, I also checked upstream for any related fixes and some have been introduced via stable. We could perform a bisect between the versions and identify the faulty commit.  If you can get a reproducer working via step (2) then we could also go this route.

Thanks,
--chris j arges

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Title:
  Ubuntu 15.04 Install Error with Avago Controller

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hello Canonical Team

  We are running to an issue installing ubuntu PPC64LE 15.04 full blown
  image on our servers  (with RAID controller).  Installation hangs
  around 70% of progress.

  An important part of our configuration is Avago RAID controller:
  9361-8i Firmware version we used is 4.300.00-4429, and the package is
  24.10.0-0002.

  IMPORTANT: It has to be noted that with same hardware configuration
  14.10 full blown image installs fine.

  Dmesg logs are attached:

  Looking at dmesg logs point out that:
  LSI (avago) driver loads fine
  During further interaction with raid volume during the installation process, firmware errors are seen 
  [  196.991417] megasas: FW status 0x3

  [  196.999376] megasas: FW status 0x3

  [  197.007376] megasas: FW status 0x3
  Further down the  process I/O errors are thrown
  [  217.438664] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 22052864

  [  217.438671] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 22052865

  [  217.438678] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 22052866

  [  217.438686] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 22052867

  Full dmesg log is attached. Snippet is pasted below highlighting:

  It can be noted that there’s a Mellanox Connectx 3 pro card with some test Firmware on our setup. 
  We can Ignore any diagnostic messages from that card in dmesg logs for the purpose of this bug. 

  Thanks
  Adi Gangidi

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