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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear kernel team: this appears to be a regression in 3.13.0-4, although
I can't quite track down what.  Compare the behaviour of these two
images:

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/20101020ubuntu285/images/netboot/mini.iso
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/20101020ubuntu286/images/netboot/mini.iso

(The first will complain about kernel udebs being missing; you can
safely disregard that for the purposes of this bug.)

Take copies of /bin/df and /usr/bin/du on trusty/amd64, and put them
somewhere on your network whence you can download them during
installation.  Now watch "/path/to/df -m" and "/path/to/du -cmsx /"
during the "Loading additional components" phase; in the second image,
notice how they start out matching but diverge more and more as the
phase goes on until there's no more space on rootfs.  It looks as though
something is holding references to some temporary files so that their
space can't be reclaimed, but I can't see what; it doesn't seem to be
anything in userspace that I can spot.  Help?

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Title:
  "Loading partman-xfs failed for unknown reasons. Aborting" error in
  trusty server installations

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  With 20140117 (containing kernel 3.13.0-4-generic) trusty server
  images the above error message dialog appears during the installation
  and the following could be seen in the install syslog:

  Jan 17 16:49:28 anna[8497]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-target 83ubuntu1
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> SUBST anna/progress_step_retr PACKAGE partman-target
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: Adding [PACKAGE] -> [partman-target]
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO anna/progress_step_retr
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Jan 17 16:49:28 anna[8497]: corrupted status flag!!: 0
  Jan 17 16:49:28 anna[8497]: (process:10536): tar: write error: No space left on device
  Jan 17 16:49:28 anna[8497]: (process:10536): tar: write error: No space left on device
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> PROGRESS STEP 1
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Jan 17 16:49:28 anna[8497]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-xfs 53
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> SUBST anna/progress_step_retr PACKAGE partman-xfs
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: Adding [PACKAGE] -> [partman-xfs]
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO anna/progress_step_retr
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> PROGRESS STOP
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> SUBST anna/install_failed PACKAGE partman-xfs
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: Adding [PACKAGE] -> [partman-xfs]
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> INPUT critical anna/install_failed
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
  Jan 17 16:49:28 debconf: --> GO

  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: <-- 0 ok
  Jan 17 16:56:07 main-menu[2943]: WARNING **: Configuring 'load-cdrom' failed with error code 8
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: --> GET debconf/priority
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: <-- 0 critical
  Jan 17 16:56:07 main-menu[2943]: WARNING **: Menu item 'load-cdrom' failed.
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: --> SETTITLE debian-installer/load-cdrom/title
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: --> CAPB
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: <-- 0 multiselect backup progresscancel align escape plugin-terminal plugin-detect-keyboard
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: --> METAGET debian-installer/load-cdrom/title Description
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: <-- 0 Load installer components from CD
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: --> SUBST debian-installer/main-menu/item-failure ITEM Load installer components from CD
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: Adding [ITEM] -> [Load installer components from CD]
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: <-- 0
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: --> INPUT critical debian-installer/main-menu/item-failure
  Jan 17 16:56:07 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked

  =============
  The steps to reproduce:
  Install ubuntu server from the the ISO image of 20140117

  Impacted jobs are:
  http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/server/i386/20140117/6131/default/
  and
  http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/server/amd64/20140117/6130/default/

  The installer syslog is attached

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