#597621 installation-reports: installer failed to mount when two or more encrypted partitions were set up

Package:
partman-crypto
Source:
partman-crypto
Submitter:
"Douglas A. Augusto"
Date:
2010-09-22 21:03:09 UTC
Severity:
normal
#597621#5
Date:
2010-09-21 12:29:41 UTC
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Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: Installation done on 19-Sep-2010 (ISO image from this date)

Machine: Custom built computer (M/B ECS A890GXM-AU v1.0)
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Memory: 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 1333MHZ OCZ Gold
Partitions:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00089278

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          49      390144   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2              49        1994    15625216   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3            1994       64242   499999744   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4           64242      182402   949122048   83  Linux

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c21bf

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          32      247808   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              32        1977    15625216   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            1977      243202  1937639512   83  Linux

# df -Tl
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3     ext4   492153872  19767808 462386072   5% /
tmpfs        tmpfs     3840176         0   3840176   0% /lib/init/rw
udev         tmpfs     3801224       280   3800944   1% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs     3840176      2932   3837244   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1     ext4      377831     40351    325776  12% /boot
/dev/mapper/sdb4_crypt
              ext4   934227060  28707236 905519824   4% /home
/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt
              ext4   1907175504 1123091716 784083788  59% /mnt


Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
Alternate [1022:9601]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:9602]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA
Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391] (rev 40)
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:4391]
   Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0
Controller [1002:4397]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller [1002:4396]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0
Controller [1002:4397]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller [1002:4396]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385]
(rev 41)
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
[1002:4383] (rev 40)
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host
controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
[1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2
Controller [1002:4399]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a0]
   Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:15.1 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a1]
   Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:16.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0
Controller [1002:4397]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:16.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller [1002:4396]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
   Kernel driver in use: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Link Control [1022:1204]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon
HD 4290] [1002:9714]
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2257]
   Kernel driver in use: radeon
02:05.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors
SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev 10)
   Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. PCTV Stereo [11bd:002b]
   Kernel driver in use: saa7134
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:8d48]
   Kernel driver in use: r8169
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:8d48]
   Kernel driver in use: r8169


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:

I did the installation in "expert mode". Unfortunately I had two problems
concerning the setup of LUKS encrypted partitions and filesystems. The first
and critical one was that the installer couldn't setup more than one encrypted
partition. Whenever I tried to specify two or more encrypted partitions the
installer failed after formatting them, during the mounting phase. It seemed
that the installer arbitrarily corrupted the filesystems right after
creating/formatting them. I was trying to create four encrypted partitions:
/dev/sdb4 (ext4) as /home (see disks layout above), /dev/sdb2 as swap,
/dev/sda3 (ext4) as /mnt and /dev/sda2 as second swap.  Unfortunately I had to
create only one (sdb4) and to leave the remaining three to be done after the
system installation.

The second problem was that at times the filesystem's type and its settings
were not remembered, so I was forced to setup and re-setup the filesystem for
some partitions.


Suggestion:

I would like to suggest that in "expert mode" the user should be able to
choose to continue the installation process even if a previous phase has
failed. When I experienced the major issue reported above, I was able to
switch to a terminal and create/format/mount the encrypted partitions
manually. But unfortunately the installation process didn't let me continue to
the next stage because the previous stage had failed.
#597621#10
Date:
2010-09-21 16:08:00 UTC
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tags 597621 moreinfo
thanks

Before this bug report is reassigned to partman-crypto, could you test
the "daily builds" of D-I?

Go to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer and take care to
pick one of the daily builds, preferrably the netboot image (*not* netinst!).

All internal logic of D-I is based on such dependencies. So I very
much doubt this happens before a major rewrite of many parts.

I don't really see the benefit anyway (at least in real
installs....there may be some use cases in D-I development itself but
other hacks such as putting "exit 0" at the top of the failing
component postinst, are often enough....
#597621#17
Date:
2010-09-21 23:30:07 UTC
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Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:

I'm sorry, but since the system is already installed and in operation (I
formatted the filesystems and created the mounting points manually for the
other three partitions after booting), at this time I cannot repeat the
installation procedure.  Although I didn't use the netboot image, I did use a
recent netinst image (from 19-Sep-2010, md5sum: c6cfcaee07d8f96c0afbca177a18068d).

Is there something in the installation logs that could be useful? For
instance, in installer/syslog there is:

   [...]
   Sep 19 07:54:13 kernel: [ 5226.997031] EXT4-fs (sdb3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 07:54:13 kernel: [ 5227.072577] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 07:57:54 kernel: [ 5447.520629] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
   Sep 19 07:58:55 main-menu[493]: (process:12660): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sdb4_crypt on /target/home failed: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 07:58:55 main-menu[493]: WARNING **: Configuring 'partman-base' failed with error code 2
   Sep 19 07:58:55 main-menu[493]: WARNING **: Menu item 'partman-base' failed.
   Sep 19 07:59:02 main-menu[493]: DEBUG: resolver (libncurses5): package doesn't exist (ignored)
   Sep 19 07:59:08 main-menu[493]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected
   [...]
   Sep 19 08:29:45 kernel: [ 7359.057726] EXT4-fs (sdb3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 08:29:45 kernel: [ 7359.133290] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 08:33:24 kernel: [ 7578.260988] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
   Sep 19 08:36:31 kernel: [ 7765.121220] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
   Sep 19 08:36:31 kernel: [ 7765.121405] EXT2-fs: dm-3: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).
   Sep 19 08:36:31 kernel: [ 7765.121500] EXT3-fs: dm-3: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).
   Sep 19 08:36:32 kernel: [ 7765.745557] EXT4-fs (dm-3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 08:38:45 kernel: [ 7899.089003] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
   Sep 19 08:38:45 kernel: [ 7899.096842] EXT2-fs: dm-1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).
   Sep 19 08:38:45 kernel: [ 7899.100834] EXT3-fs: dm-1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).
   Sep 19 08:38:46 kernel: [ 7899.447135] EXT4-fs (dm-1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 08:38:52 main-menu[493]: (process:29083): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt on /target/mnt failed: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 08:38:52 main-menu[493]: (process:29083): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sdb4_crypt on /target/home failed: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 08:38:52 main-menu[493]: WARNING **: Configuring 'partman-base' failed with error code 2
   Sep 19 08:38:52 main-menu[493]: WARNING **: Menu item 'partman-base' failed.
   Sep 19 08:38:53 main-menu[493]: DEBUG: resolver (libncurses5): package doesn't exist (ignored)
   Sep 19 08:38:56 main-menu[493]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected
   [...]
   Sep 19 09:04:23 partman: mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
   Sep 19 09:07:45 kernel: [ 9638.338764] EXT4-fs (sdb3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 09:07:45 kernel: [ 9638.447888] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 09:07:45 kernel: [ 9638.848969] EXT4-fs (dm-1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
   Sep 19 09:07:45 main-menu[493]: (process:15976): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sdb4_crypt on /target/home failed: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 09:07:45 main-menu[493]: (process:15976): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt on /target/mnt failed: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 09:07:45 main-menu[493]: (process:15976): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sdb4_crypt on /target/home failed: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 09:07:45 main-menu[493]: (process:15976): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sdb4_crypt on /target/home failed: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 09:07:45 main-menu[493]: (process:15976): swapon: /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt: Invalid argument
   Sep 19 09:07:45 main-menu[493]: (process:15976): mount: mounting /dev/mapper/sdb4_crypt on /target/home failed: Invalid argument
#597621#22
Date:
2010-09-22 04:38:00 UTC
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To:
reassign 597621 partman-crypto
thanks

Quoting Douglas A. Augusto (daaugusto@gmail.com):

Yes...but a recent netinst image is using a quite old D-I release (D-I
alpha 1)...which is why I now suggest using recent builds from scratch.

Maybe. At this point, the only opportunity we have is reassigning this
bug to partman-crypto.

Please send the entire D-I logs to the bug report (no need to CC me)
if you haven't done it already (I can't check right now, being offline).
#597621#29
Date:
2010-09-22 21:00:10 UTC
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Attached are the full D-I logs found in /var/log/installer.