Lucid Alpha 3 installer crashes on manual partitioning

Bug #528171 reported by Yuriy Kozlov
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

In manual partitioning, I deleted the three ntfs partitions that were there and created a new ext4 partition. When I clicked OK to create the partition the installer crashed reproducibly.

Feb 26 02:30:28 ubuntu ubiquity[8828]: Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
Feb 26 02:30:28 ubuntu ubiquity[8828]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 26 02:30:28 ubuntu ubiquity[8828]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartMan.py", line 383, in on_partition_list_treeview_activated
Feb 26 02:30:28 ubuntu ubiquity[8828]: self.partman_create_dialog(devpart, partition)
Feb 26 02:30:28 ubuntu ubiquity[8828]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartMan.py", line 189, in partman_create_dialog
Feb 26 02:30:28 ubuntu ubiquity[8828]: prilog = partman.PARTITION_TYPE_PRIMARY
Feb 26 02:30:28 ubuntu ubiquity[8828]: NameError: global name 'partman' is not defined

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :
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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :
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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

This is running Kubuntu Lucid Alpha 3 AMD64.

Jonathan Riddell (jr)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04-beta-1
tags: added: kubuntu
Vinxs89 (vinxs89)
description: updated
tags: added: ubuntu
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.32

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ubiquity (2.1.32) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * scripts/install.py:
   - copy the cached wallpaper created either by g-s-d or nautilus or by the
     dedicated script in install mode. (LP: #530024)

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * WebKit puts file URLs in their own domain by default. This means that
    anything which checks for the same origin, such as creating an
    XMLHttpRequest, will fail unless this is disabled (LP: #532502).
  * Restore Colin's set_locale function. However, this is only half the
    puzzle. We need to finish running the language component when the
    exit button is pressed when in greeter mode.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * KDE frontend:
    - Fix references to PARTITION_* in PartMan module (LP: #528171).
    - Drop real UID/GID when initialising KApplication. The real and
      effective IDs need to match, but raising them means we can't talk to
      D-Bus. Instead, use saved IDs to store our root privileges so that we
      can get them back (LP: #526486).
  * ubiquity-dm: Close stdout from dbus-launch.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.42ubuntu3,
    user-setup 1.28ubuntu4.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:09:55 +0000

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
tags: added: iso-testing
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f3a97 (f3a97) wrote :

Hi,

Guys a similar bug to this one still exists in the 6 April 2010 daily image.

Yesterday I spent all day trying to install Lucid on my laptop.

I wanted a manual partitioning approach, but I cannot complete the installation.

The problem I experimented is not on the partitioning step - this works correctly. Layer on, the installation proceeds but when the filesystems are created (first phase of the showcase installer, let me say) I repeatedly got a window stating that the kernel cannot read the partition table, a reboot is needed.

After that, the installer stops and goes back to the partitioning step. Here I found a partition table completely messed up - I found two swap partitions, as an example. Eventually, the installer crashes completely.

In the end, I managed to install Lucid by creating the partitions with gparted. Then the installer worked ok.

Too bad I have no logs to submit, but I suggest to test this scenario since it is definitely important.

Please let me know should you need any further information!
Hope this helps!

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thusi87 (thusi87) wrote :

Well i have to say that you ppl are lucky if are able to install the 10.04 beta 2 at all. I tried it in my asus F5GL lap, and it was a total disaster.. i simply cant go forward with the installer. things gets stuck at no real reason. Once i got past the initial welcome screen and actually formated the 9.10 partition...then the installer got stuck at 40% with me having to reinstall 9.10 :(

they better fix things at least in the RC or this is gonna look bad. I really believe that what ubuntu needs id not purple fancy stuff, but sm real stability.

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