Bdtyktl

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 Server on a native 4K SSD controller and it fails during the partition creation phase.

From the Installer I can see that the size detected for the disk is wrong, it is
showing 8 times the real size and try to use that size on the partition command for "/", I'm wondering if it is estimating the size based on 512B blocks instead of 4096B, but I couldn't find were this is happening. Anybody had a similar issue and know how to fix it?

From Install.log

    previous partition number for 'part-3' found to be '1'

    previous partition: /sys/class/block/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1

    previous partition.size_sectors: 131072

    previous partition.start_sectors: 256

    adding partition 'part-3' to disk 'disk-0' (ptable: 'gpt')

    partnum: 2 offset_sectors: 131328 length_sectors: 625989119

    Running command ['sgdisk', '--new', '2:131328:626120447', '--typecode=2:8300', '/dev/nvme0n1'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=True)

    An error occured handling 'part-3': ProcessExecutionError - Unexpected error while running command.

    Command: ['sgdisk', '--new', '2:131328:626120447', '--typecode=2:8300', '/dev/nvme0n1']

    Exit code: 4

    Reason: -

    Stdout: ''

    Stderr: Could not create partition 2 from 131328 to 626120447

            Could not change partition 2's type code to 8300!

            Error encountered; not saving changes.

Version:
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Start of Install Log (There is already a partition form previous installation try):

curtin: Installation started. (18.2)

start: cmd-install/stage-partitioning/builtin/cmd-block-meta: curtin command block-meta

get_path_to_storage_volume for volume disk-0

Processing serial Logan_DU01-03-02-A01-061 via udev to Logan_DU01-03-02-A01-061

devsync for /dev/nvme0n1

Running command ['partprobe', '/dev/nvme0n1'] with allowed return codes [0, 1] (capture=False)

Running command ['udevadm', 'settle'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)

TIMED udevadm_settle(): 0.092

devsync happy - path /dev/nvme0n1 now exists

return volume path /dev/nvme0n1

Declared block devices: ['/dev/nvme0n1']

start: cmd-install/stage-partitioning/builtin/cmd-block-meta/clear-holders: removing previous storage devices

Running command ['mdadm', '--assemble', '--scan', '-v'] with allowed return codes [0, 1, 2] (capture=True)

mdadm assemble scan results:



mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly

mdadm: Cannot assemble mbr metadata on /dev/sda1

mdadm: Cannot assemble mbr metadata on /dev/sda

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/nvme0n1p1

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/nvme0n1

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop6

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop5

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop4

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop3

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop2

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop1

mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/loop0

mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically



Running command ['mdadm', '--detail', '--scan', '-v'] with allowed return codes [0, 1] (capture=True)

mdadm detail scan after assemble:





Running command ['udevadm', 'settle'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)

TIMED udevadm_settle(): 0.009

Running command ['pvscan', '--cache'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=True)

Running command ['vgscan', '--mknodes', '--cache'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=True)

Running command ['vgchange', '--activate=y'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=True)

Loading kernel module bcache via modprobe

Running command ['modprobe', '--use-blacklist', 'bcache'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)

Loading kernel module zfs via modprobe

Running command ['modprobe', '--use-blacklist', 'zfs'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)

zfs filesystem is not supported in this environment

devname '/sys/class/block/nvme0n1' had holders: 

devname '/sys/class/block/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1' had holders: 

Current device storage tree:

nvme0n1

`-- nvme0n1p1

Shutdown Plan:

{'level': 1, 'device': '/sys/class/block/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1', 'dev_type': 'partition'}

{'level': 0, 'device': '/sys/class/block/nvme0n1', 'dev_type': 'disk'}

shutdown running on holder type: 'partition' syspath: '/sys/class/block/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1'

Running command ['lsblk', '--noheadings', '--bytes', '--pairs', '--output=ALIGNMENT,DISC-ALN,DISC-GRAN,DISC-MAX,DISC-ZERO,FSTYPE,GROUP,KNAME,LABEL,LOG-SEC,MAJ:MIN,MIN-IO,MODE,MODEL,MOUNTPOINT,NAME,OPT-IO,OWNER,PHY-SEC,RM,RO,ROTA,RQ-SIZE,SIZE,STATE,TYPE,UUID', '/dev/nvme0n1'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=True)

get_blockdev_sector_size: info:

{

 "nvme0n1": {

  "ALIGNMENT": "0",

  "DISC-ALN": "0",

  "DISC-GRAN": "0",

  "DISC-MAX": "0",

  "DISC-ZERO": "0",

  "FSTYPE": "",

  "GROUP": "disk",

  "KNAME": "nvme0n1",

  "LABEL": "",

  "LOG-SEC": "4096",

  "MAJ:MIN": "259:0",

  "MIN-IO": "4096",

  "MODE": "brw-rw----",

  "MODEL": "Logan",

  "MOUNTPOINT": "",

  "NAME": "nvme0n1",

  "OPT-IO": "0",

  "OWNER": "root",

  "PHY-SEC": "4096",

  "RM": "0",

  "RO": "0",

  "ROTA": "0",

  "RQ-SIZE": "1023",

  "SIZE": "320573878272",

  "STATE": "live",

  "TYPE": "disk",

  "UUID": "",

  "device_path": "/dev/nvme0n1"

 },

 "nvme0n1p1": {

  "ALIGNMENT": "0",

  "DISC-ALN": "0",

  "DISC-GRAN": "0",

  "DISC-MAX": "0",

  "DISC-ZERO": "0",

  "FSTYPE": "",

  "GROUP": "disk",

  "KNAME": "nvme0n1p1",

  "LABEL": "",

  "LOG-SEC": "4096",

  "MAJ:MIN": "259:2",

  "MIN-IO": "4096",

  "MODE": "brw-rw----",

  "MODEL": "",

  "MOUNTPOINT": "",

  "NAME": "nvme0n1p1",

  "OPT-IO": "0",

  "OWNER": "root",

  "PHY-SEC": "4096",

  "RM": "0",

  "RO": "0",

  "ROTA": "0",

  "RQ-SIZE": "1023",

  "SIZE": "536870912",

  "STATE": "",

  "TYPE": "part",

  "UUID": "",

  "device_path": "/dev/nvme0n1p1"

 }

}