[sle-beta] Error while formatting partition

CuiXiang Zhang cuixiangz at vmware.com
Tue Sep 17 19:43:30 MDT 2019


I encounter similar issue and reported bug.  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150973

I pasted description here.

Description of problem:
SLES 12 SP5 beta4/rc1 installation errors pops when formatting partition with following two kinds of errors: 

1) Formatting partition /dev/sda2 with btrfs, VOLUME_FORMAT_FAILED, system error code was: -3008, /sbin/mkfs.btrfs '/dev/sda2': no Valid Btrfs found on /dev/sda2 Open ctree failed.
2) Setting disk label of /dev/sda to GPT, DISK_SET_LABEL_PARTED_FAILED. System error code was: -1013, /usr/sbin/parted 0s '/dev/sda' mklabel gpt: Error Input/Output error during write on /dev/sda.

This failure only occur when hard disk is on VmWare Paravirtual SCSI, but successfully on other hard disk type, like lsilogic parallel SCSI, lsi logic sas SCSI, sata, ide or nvme.

While sles12sp5 beta1~beta3 installation successfully on hard disk based on VmWare Paravirtual SCSI.

sles12sp5 beta3 and beta4 use same version '1.0.7.0-k' vmw_pvscsi driver
 25 cmd: modinfo vmw_pvscsi | grep version
 26 version:        1.0.7.0-k
 27 srcversion:     DE4675B00D29D042B677900
 28 vermagic:       4.12.14-111-default SMP mod_unload modversions

So seems it doesn't matter with vmw_pvscsi driver.

How reproducible:
100%

Thanks
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BRs,
Cuixiang Zhang

-----Original Message-----
From: sle-beta <sle-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com> On Behalf Of Jiri Srain
Sent: 2019年9月17日 21:58
To: sle-beta at lists.suse.com; Chetan Kumar <Chetan.Kumar at microfocus.com>
Subject: Re: [sle-beta] Error while formatting partition

Hi Chetan,

forget the note about dmesg, it is already included. And it indeed looks like the already reported bug:

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.novell.com%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D1150509&data=02%7C01%7Ccuixiangz%40vmware.com%7Caae8b6e134764964c29e08d73b7720ed%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C1%7C637043255149379806&sdata=gBX8RXuUo9ZE3sSqUyzyOYNkhoDcCDYusNPJf7wS1Sk%3D&reserved=0

Since both of the reports come from MicroFocus and right now I cannot tell whether it is related to kernel or hardware, could you, please:

- check that you use different hardware than in the other report

- check whether you can reproduce the bug with SP4 or earlier snapshot of SP5

Those could help asses whether it is a hardware or driver problem.

Thanks,
  Jiri

On 17. 09. 19 15:49, Jiri Srain wrote:
> Hi Chetan,
> 
> when the bug occurs (the point when the attached error is shown), 
> could you, please, check dmesg output and provide it? (via this list 
> or directly to me)
> 
> There is a similarity with a recently reported bug, I would like to 
> confirm that
> 
> Thanks,
>   Jiri
> 
> On 17. 09. 19 8:23, Chetan Kumar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    While installing SLES12SP5-RC1 on ESXi 6.7.0 , i hit the below error.
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *Failure occurred during following action:* *Formatting partition 
>> /dev/sda2 (12.00 GiB) with btrfs*
>> *
>> *
>> *VOLUME_CANNOT_TMP_MOUNT*
>> *
>> *
>> *System error code was: -3043*
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -
>>
>> Attaching the screen of the error message and the y2logs.
>>
>> Is this a known issue?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chetan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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