Jose,
I downloaded geoserver 2.8.2 without any special extensions, built the latest version of geowave for geoserver by enabling building the shaded jar from the geowave-deploy module `cd deploy; mvn package -P geotools-container-singlejar` Then I copied the shaded jar from the target directory to geoserver's WEB-INF/lib. I can't imagine I did much differently, and for ingest I simply ran you code snippet on the same geotiff (
o41078a5.tif). As mentioned, I was hoping to recreate the problem, but geoserver's openlayers preview of that image worked well unless I zoomed to a scale that wasn't within the image pyramid (in which case it just wouldn't update tiles). Using GeoServer 2.7.x worked with zooming in and out, but the fix in the PR linked below will deprecate support of GeoServer 2.7.x for future releases of GeoWave in favor of supporting GeoServer 2.8.x and future releases. I am very interested in trying to understand what is happening in your situation and helping as best I can. I haven't seen an image broken in pieces as you experienced, but would like to get to the bottom of it if there is an underlying issue.