Partitions produced by the installer not properly unmounted?

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  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Mathieu Othacehe
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 21 Feb 2020 12:13
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
87lfownqgd.fsf@inria.fr
Hi Mathieu,

I noticed that partitions created by the installer appear to not be
properly unmounted, at least when running in the context of (gnu tests
install):

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ludo@ribbon ~$ qemu-img convert -O raw /gnu/store/2d3s2nbb3j2c1hmkz52xds9rfbk4q3x3-installation /tmp/broken.raw
ludo@ribbon ~$ sudo losetup -P /dev/loop0 /tmp/broken.raw
ludo@ribbon ~$ sudo dmesg |tail -3
[10703.869334] kvm [8936]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0xffffffffac073dad disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc2 data 0xffff
[10742.475623] kvm [8957]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0xffffffffaf073dad disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc2 data 0xffff
[11774.318468] loop0: p1 p2 p3
ludo@ribbon ~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/loop0
Disk /dev/loop0: 2.15 GiB, 2306867200 bytes, 4505600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 213AE251-0E91-499E-9184-0CCEC6DA64C7

Dispositiu Start Final Sectors Size Tipus
/dev/loop0p1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
/dev/loop0p2 6144 231423 225280 110M Intercanvi Linux
/dev/loop0p3 231424 4503551 4272128 2G Linux filesystem
ludo@ribbon ~$ sudo mount /dev/loop0p3 /mnt/usb
ludo@ribbon ~$ sudo dmesg |tail -3
[11774.318468] loop0: p1 p2 p3
[11803.975300] EXT4-fs (loop0p3): recovery complete
[11803.977277] EXT4-fs (loop0p3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

However, I’ve added logging in ‘umount-user-partitions’ in (gnu
installer parted), and the installer does seem to unmount partitions
correctly.

Could it be a side effect of the MS_MOVE dance in
1d02052067e04d7dd8fd1ec17557ca02a30b9bcf?

(I’m observing this on ‘wip-installer-tests’, roughly based on
117d8467be232bcc1b0136d04f362d95d975ca95.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 21 Feb 2020 16:27
(address . 39712@debbugs.gnu.org)(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)
87h7zknepa.fsf@gmail.com
Hey Ludo,

Nice progress on that branch :)

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> Could it be a side effect of the MS_MOVE dance in
> 1d02052067e04d7dd8fd1ec17557ca02a30b9bcf?

Could be, I ran the following command on wip-installer-test branch:

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make check-system TESTS=gui-installed-os

But it appears to get stuck at this step:

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conversation expecting pattern ((quote pause))

I'll try to investigate further later on.

Thanks,

Mathieu
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 21 Feb 2020 21:43
(name . Mathieu Othacehe)(address . m.othacehe@gmail.com)(address . 39712@debbugs.gnu.org)
87d0a73c3x.fsf@gnu.org
Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

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>> Could it be a side effect of the MS_MOVE dance in
>> 1d02052067e04d7dd8fd1ec17557ca02a30b9bcf?
>
> Could be, I ran the following command on wip-installer-test branch:
>
> make check-system TESTS=gui-installed-os
>
>
> But it appears to get stuck at this step:
>
> conversation expecting pattern ((quote pause))
>
> I'll try to investigate further later on.

Don’t investigate on that branch yet though, I have quite a lot of
changes that I’ll push soon. :-)

But I think the problem should show up even with “make check-system
TESTS=installed-os” on master.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 22 Feb 2020 11:24
(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)(address . 39712@debbugs.gnu.org)
875zfyvs15.fsf@gmail.com
Hey Ludo,

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> But I think the problem should show up even with “make check-system
> TESTS=installed-os” on master.

Well this does not involve the graphical installer, so I'm not sure to
understand.

Anyway, testing the installer in Qemu, I can reproduce a failure where
the first umount in "umount-cow-store" throws an exception (busy
device), when umounting a crypted partition.

That's probably what's bitting you, so to be continued!

Thanks,

Mathieu
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 22 Feb 2020 18:13
(name . Mathieu Othacehe)(address . m.othacehe@gmail.com)(address . 39712@debbugs.gnu.org)
87blpqy282.fsf@gnu.org
Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

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>> But I think the problem should show up even with “make check-system
>> TESTS=installed-os” on master.

Hmm I’m not sure this is true.

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> Well this does not involve the graphical installer, so I'm not sure to
> understand.
>
> Anyway, testing the installer in Qemu, I can reproduce a failure where
> the first umount in "umount-cow-store" throws an exception (busy
> device), when umounting a crypted partition.

On current ‘wip-installer-test’
(0699b97f7df8708a000eb7bfb043c2cef6672dc3), you can run:

make check-system TESTS=gui-installed-os

(It should succeed.)

If you take the /gnu/store/…-installation item produced and mount it as
I showed before in this thread, you should see a “recovery complete”
message from the kernel.

Note that LUKS is not involved at all in this case, and ‘umount’ doesn’t
throw.

Ludo’.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 24 Feb 2020 22:27
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 13 Mar 2020 16:52
Re: bug#39712: Partitions produced by the installer not properly unmounted?
(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)(address . 39712-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
87pndgz1yu.fsf@gmail.com
This is fixed by 64704be417ab6f2788e8e3bc36fede1db35470e7.

Thanks,

Mathieu
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