VirtualBox failing

[osallou]

Hi,
I tried to create an image with the raw backing volume and it creates an error on parted:

Partitioning the volume
Command '/sbin/parted --script --align none /dev/loop2 -- mkpart primary 1MiB 33MiB' returned non-zero exit status 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/main.py", line 40, in run
tasklist.run(info=bootstrap_info, dry_run=args.dry_run)
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/tasklist.py", line 30, in run
task.run(info)
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/common/tasks/partitioning.py", line 12, in run
info.volume.partition_map.create(info.volume)
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitionmaps/abstract.py", line 28, in create
self.fsm.create(volume=volume)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 131, in fn
if self._before_event(e) is False:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 151, in _before_event
return getattr(self, fnname)(e)
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitionmaps/mbr.py", line 31, in _before_create
partition.create(volume)
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitions/base.py", line 22, in create
self.fsm.create(volume=volume)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 131, in fn
if self._before_event(e) is False:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 151, in _before_event
return getattr(self, fnname)(e)
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitions/mbr.py", line 19, in _before_create
'--', parted_command])
File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/common/tools.py", line 7, in log_check_call
raise CalledProcessError(status, ' '.join(command), '\n'.join(stderr))
CalledProcessError: Command '/sbin/parted --script --align none /dev/loop2 -- mkpart primary 1MiB 33MiB' returned non-zero exit status 1
Rolling back

My server is using sid.

[andsens]

Could you upload the corresponding logfile or try again with --debug? I don't see any output by parted.

It's not tested on sid yet, btw. Only wheezy.

[osallou]

here is log with --debug

Loaded provider virtualbox' Loaded pluginuser_packages'
Tasklist:
<class 'common.tasks.workspace.CreateWorkspace'>
<class 'common.tasks.packages.ImagePackages'>
<class 'plugins.user_packages.user_packages.AddUserPackages'>
<class 'providers.virtualbox.tasks.packages.ImagePackages'>
<class 'common.tasks.packages.HostPackages'>
<class 'common.tasks.host.CheckPackages'>
<class 'common.tasks.loopback.Create'>
<class 'common.tasks.volume.Attach'>
<class 'common.tasks.partitioning.PartitionVolume'>
<class 'common.tasks.partitioning.MapPartitions'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.Format'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.TuneVolumeFS'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.CreateMountDir'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.MountRoot'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.CreateBootMountDir'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.MountBoot'>
<class 'common.tasks.bootstrap.Bootstrap'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.MountSpecials'>
<class 'common.tasks.network.RemoveHostname'>
<class 'plugins.user_packages.user_packages.AddLocalUserPackages'>
<class 'common.tasks.initd.ResolveInitScripts'>
<class 'common.tasks.initd.InstallInitScripts'>
<class 'common.tasks.locale.SetTimezone'>
<class 'common.tasks.network.ConfigureNetworkIF'>
<class 'common.tasks.apt.DisableDaemonAutostart'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.FStab'>
<class 'common.tasks.boot.BlackListModules'>
<class 'common.tasks.boot.DisableGetTTYs'>
<class 'common.tasks.locale.GenerateLocale'>
<class 'common.tasks.apt.AptSources'>
<class 'common.tasks.apt.AptUpgrade'>
<class 'providers.virtualbox.tasks.boot.ConfigureGrub'>
<class 'common.tasks.network.RemoveDNSInfo'>
<class 'common.tasks.security.EnableShadowConfig'>
<class 'common.tasks.apt.AptClean'>
<class 'common.tasks.cleanup.ClearMOTD'>
<class 'common.tasks.apt.PurgeUnusedPackages'>
<class 'common.tasks.apt.EnableDaemonAutostart'>
<class 'common.tasks.cleanup.CleanTMP'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.UnmountBoot'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.UnmountSpecials'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.UnmountRoot'>
<class 'common.tasks.partitioning.UnmapPartitions'>
<class 'common.tasks.volume.Detach'>
<class 'common.tasks.filesystem.DeleteMountDir'>
<class 'common.tasks.loopback.MoveImage'>
<class 'common.tasks.workspace.DeleteWorkspace'>
Creating workspace
Determining required image packages
Adding user defined packages to the image packages
Determining required image packages
Determining required host packages
Checking installed host packages
Executing: /usr/bin/dpkg-query -s qemu-utils
Package: qemu-utils
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 2439
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team [email protected]
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Source: qemu
Version: 1.7.0+dfsg-2
Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libiscsi1 (>= 1.4), libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.8), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: sharutils
Suggests: debootstrap
Description: QEMU utilities
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports
ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4,
SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves
reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
.
This package provides QEMU related utilities:

• qemu-img: QEMU disk image utility
• qemu-io: QEMU disk exerciser
• qemu-nbd: QEMU disk network block device server
  Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/
  Executing: /usr/bin/dpkg-query -s parted
  Package: parted
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: optional
  Section: admin
  Installed-Size: 264
  Maintainer: Parted Maintainer Team [email protected]
  Architecture: amd64
  Version: 2.3-16
  Replaces: fsresize, parted1.6
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), libparted0debian1 (>= 2.2-1), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libtinfo5
  Suggests: parted-doc
  Conflicts: fsresize, parted1.6
  Description: disk partition manipulator
  GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize,
  move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space
  for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data
  to new hard disks.
  .
  This package contains the binary and manual page. Further
  documentation is available in parted-doc.
  .
  Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS, and PC98
  partitioning formats, as well as a "loop" (raw disk) type which
  allows use on RAID/LVM. It can detect and remove ASFS/AFFS/APFS,
  Btrfs, ext2/3/4, FAT16/32, HFS, JFS, linux-swap, UFS, XFS, and ZFS
  file systems. Parted also has the ability to create and modify file
  systems of some of these types, but using it to perform file system
  operations is now deprecated.
  .
  The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive
  data loss. While there are no such bugs known at the moment, they
  could exist, so please back up all important files before running
  it, and do so at your own risk.
  Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
  Executing: /usr/bin/dpkg-query -s debootstrap
  Package: debootstrap
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: extra
  Section: admin
  Installed-Size: 227
  Maintainer: Debian Install System Team [email protected]
  Architecture: all
  Version: 1.0.55
  Depends: wget
  Recommends: gnupg, debian-archive-keyring
  Description: Bootstrap a basic Debian system
  debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch,
  without requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by
  downloading .deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them
  into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into.
  Executing: /usr/bin/dpkg-query -s kpartx
  Package: kpartx
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: extra
  Section: admin
  Installed-Size: 102
  Maintainer: Debian LVM Team [email protected]
  Architecture: amd64
  Source: multipath-tools
  Version: 0.4.9+git0.9c3c5172-1
  Replaces: multipath-tools (<< 0.4.7-3)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36), udev (>> 0.086), dmsetup (>= 2:1.02.24)
  Description: create device mappings for partitions
  Kpartx can be used to set up device mappings for the partitions of any
  partitioned block device. It is part of the Linux multipath-tools.
  Homepage: http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/
  Creating a loopback volume
  Executing: /usr/bin/qemu-img create -f raw /target/e25b5b6f/volume.raw 3161M
  Formatting '/target/e25b5b6f/volume.raw', fmt=raw size=3314548736
  Attaching the volume
  Executing: /sbin/losetup --show --find /target/e25b5b6f/volume.raw
  /dev/loop2
  Partitioning the volume
  Executing: /sbin/parted --script --align none /dev/loop2 -- mklabel msdos
  Executing: /sbin/parted --script --align none /dev/loop2 -- mkpart primary 1MiB 33MiB
  Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/loop2p1 -- Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/loop2p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
  Error: Failed to add partition 1 (Invalid argument)
  Command '/sbin/parted --script --align none /dev/loop2 -- mkpart primary 1MiB 33MiB' returned non-zero exit status 1
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/main.py", line 40, in run
  tasklist.run(info=bootstrap_info, dry_run=args.dry_run)
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/tasklist.py", line 30, in run
  task.run(info)
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/common/tasks/partitioning.py", line 12, in run
  info.volume.partition_map.create(info.volume)
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitionmaps/abstract.py", line 28, in create
  self.fsm.create(volume=volume)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 131, in fn
  if self._before_event(e) is False:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 151, in _before_event
  return getattr(self, fnname)(e)
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitionmaps/mbr.py", line 31, in _before_create
  partition.create(volume)
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitions/base.py", line 22, in create
  self.fsm.create(volume=volume)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 131, in fn
  if self._before_event(e) is False:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fysom/init.py", line 151, in _before_event
  return getattr(self, fnname)(e)
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/base/fs/partitions/mbr.py", line 19, in _before_create
  '--', parted_command])
  File "/home/osallou/build-debian-cloud/common/tools.py", line 7, in log_check_call
  raise CalledProcessError(status, ' '.join(command), '\n'.join(stderr))
  CalledProcessError: Command '/sbin/parted --script --align none /dev/loop2 -- mkpart primary 1MiB 33MiB' returned non-zero exit status 1
  Rolling back

[osallou]

Argg, previous insertion lost formating, sending file as attachement

2013/12/5 Anders Ingemann [email protected]

Could you upload the corresponding logfile or try again with --debug? I
don't see any output by parted.

It's not tested on sid yet, btw. Only wheezy.

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[osallou]

Attachment not working, here is a gist link to log:

https://gist.github.com/osallou/7804506

[osallou]

I have tested on wheezy in a virtualbox (to generate a virtualbox :-) ), and it works.
So there may be an issue with upcoming packages....

[osallou]

Grub install fails however on Wheezy with error:

Executing: /usr/sbin/chroot /target/af963f8b/root /usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/dm-0

/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it..

/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.

Debug log at: https://gist.github.com/osallou/7805556

My manifest:
"volume": {
"backing": "raw",
"partitions": {
"type": "mbr",
"boot": {
"size": 32,
"filesystem": "ext2"
},
"root": {
"size": 1000,
"filesystem": "ext4"
},
"swap": {"size": 128}
}
},

I copied the VirtualBox example, just replacing vdi by raw.
This may be a config issue with mbr boot partition but I see no documentation on this (and is set as this in virtualbox manifest)

[andsens]

So this is the actual error:

Executing: /sbin/parted --script --align none /dev/loop2 -- mkpart primary 1MiB 33MiB
Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/loop2p1 -- Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/loop2p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
Error: Failed to add partition 1 (Invalid argument)

You should create another issue for the grub problem.

[osallou]

For info, I tried a reboot of the server, just in case..., but this is the same.

[andsens]

Are you still seeing this error?

[osallou]

did'nt test it with latest. I will test next week and let you know