[Spce-user] Error during deployment - OVH - error: /dev/sda: probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy

[Michael Prokop]

Hi,

* Oscar Javier Bello Pérez [Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 04:05:06PM -0500]:

> I was trying to deploy a new installation of sipwise CE 9.5.8 on a server of
> OVH and get this error *error: /dev/sda: probing initialization failed:
> Device or resource busy*, here the log:
> 
> +++ Grml-Sipwise Deployment +++
> 
> grml64-small trunk Release Codename grml-sipwise-bullseye [2021-05-11]
> Host IP(s): X.X.X.X | Deployment version: 1697229513
> 8 CPU(s) | 32767668kB RAM | Running in blade chassis
> 
> Install ngcp: true | Install CE: true PRO: false [] Carrier: false []
> Installing mr9.5.8 platform | Debian: bullseye | no EFI support
> Install IP: 5.39.73.19 | Started deployment at Fri Oct 13 20:38:48 UTC 2023
> Wiping disk signatures from /dev/sda
> *wipefs: error: /dev/sda: probing initialization failed: Device or resource
> busy*
> 
> *root at grml ~ # df -h*
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
> tmpfs           3.2G  1.1M  3.2G   1% /run
> /dev/sda1       426M  426M     0 100% /run/live/medium
> /dev/loop0      370M  370M     0 100% /run/live/rootfs/grml64-small.squashfs
> tmpfs            16G  8.4M   16G   1% /run/live/overlay
> overlay          16G  8.4M   16G   1% /
> tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> tmpfs            16G   12K   16G   1% /tmp
> tmpfs           3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /run/user/0
> 
> 
> sda: ata-INTEL_SSDSC2BB480G7
> 
> What do you think i'm missing here?

This looks like you're running it on an OVH dedicated server?
What kind of dedicated server is this?

Are you using the Virtual Media option from the KVM/IPMI feature to
run the sip_provider_mr9.5.8.iso there?

Which version exactly (see e.g.
https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/en-dedicated-servers-ipmi?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0044037)?

Because the:

| wipefs: error: /dev/sda: probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy

indicates that /dev/sda is in usage already, and this is confirmed
by:

> *root at grml ~ # df -h*
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> [...]
> /dev/sda1       426M  426M     0 100% /run/live/medium

Because that should be something like /dev/sr0 instead of /dev/sda,
because currently it looks like you are trying to install it to the
device from which you're booting from.

regards
-mika-