FS#63330 - Arch Install produces errors when installing to NVMe drive

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Primo Sabatini (primos) - Wednesday, 31 July 2019, 15:27 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Saturday, 22 February 2020, 20:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

When using either the 6-1-2019 or 7-1-2019 ISOs to install Arch on a system with an NVMe drive,
the formatting of an ext4 partition produces multiple errors:

print_req_error: operation not supported error, dev nvme0n1, sector {sec #} flags 40009

The formatting completes, but upon mounting the partition the same error occurs with the exception
of "flags 9" instead of "flags 40009". The errors keeps repeating making it impossible to continue.

Additional info:
- System: Lenovo Yoga 730 with AData XPG SX8000 512G NVMe
- ISO install from 5-2-2019 does not have the issue. This was introduced in the 6-1-2019 ISO.
- Issue also reported on StackExchange for a Dell XPS 15 9560.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/531620/operation-not-supported-error-mounting-nvme-drive-on-arch-install/533024

Steps to reproduce:
- Create bootable USB from ISO image
- Create partitions on the NVMe drive
- Format ext4 partition (errors occur but completes)
- Mount the ext4 partition (errors occur about every second)
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Saturday, 22 February 2020, 20:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  This seems pretty stalled to me. If it's still an issue, please fill a re-open request. Thank you :)
Comment by David Lawrence (dlaw) - Monday, 02 September 2019, 16:20 GMT
This issue still exists in the 9-1-2019 ISO.
System: 2017 Dell XPS 13
SSD: SK Hynix PC300 NVMe

The SSD works fine and it's possible to complete the installation... you just have to ignore the kernel spew which fills your console every 5 seconds. A workaround to edit the installer's kernel boot line (press "?" when the bootloader menu appears) and append "quiet loglevel=0".

Comment by loqs (loqs) - Monday, 02 September 2019, 18:56 GMT
It is unexpected behavior [1]

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2019-May/024375.html

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