Today's build (mar 17) I installed on a NFS shared location and after the installation while bringing up the VM I see message "sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing." console and even dmesg has this message logged.
Attached the dmesg.?field.comment=Today's build (mar 17) I installed on a NFS shared location and after the installation while bringing up the VM I see message "sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing." console and even dmesg has this message logged. Attached the dmesg.?field.comment=Today's build (mar 17) I installed on a NFS shared location and after the installation while bringing up the VM I see message "sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing." console and even dmesg has this message logged. Attached the dmesg. ** Attachment added: "dmesg_write_same.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1266737/+attachment/4028748/+files/dmesg_write_same.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266737 Title: error sda: WRITE SAME failed when installing package Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Description: ========== Was installing perl packages using apt-get install command. I saw WRITE SAME failed displayed during the process. Command used : apt-get install perl* on my Ubuntu guest to install all perl packages. I saw the message as below . . . . Setting up perlindex (1.606-1) ... Generating index (this may take a while)...sda: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. done. it took few seconds to complete and later on the process continued. Environment: ============ Host: Power8 Guest : ubuntu hosted on Power8 used below qemu command : [root@localhost ubuntu_alpha1]# cat kvmg.p8.h KERNEL=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-vmlinuz-generic #FSIMAGE=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img FSIMAGE=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img.qcow2 MEM=8G qemu-system-ppc64 \ -enable-kvm -M pseries -cpu POWER8 -smp cores=4,threads=1 -m $MEM \ -net nic -net user \ -device spapr-vscsi -drive file=$FSIMAGE \ -kernel $KERNEL \ -append "earlyprintk root=/dev/sda console=hvc0 --no-sessions" \ -nographic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1266737/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
