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ubiquity package

partitioner hangs at 46%

Bug #84253 reported by cm
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

In Feisty Herd3 the installer hangs at "Starting up the partitioner (Scanning Disks)" at 46%. I also tried "ubiquity --old-partitioner" as suggested in the announcement, but that didn't work either. The full error messages:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ubiquity
Feb 9 20:10:14 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
Feb 9 20:10:14 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name, ^countrychooser/shortlist$
Feb 9 20:10:20 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
Feb 9 20:10:20 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Feb 9 20:10:25 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/console-setup/console-setup.postinst', 'configure']' for ubiquity.components.console_setup.ConsoleSetup
Feb 9 20:10:25 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^console-setup/layout, ^console-setup/variant
Feb 9 20:10:25 ubiquity: Setting keyboard layout: pc105 de []
Feb 9 20:10:28 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
Feb 9 20:10:28 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
Feb 9 20:10:36 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/bin/partman']' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
Feb 9 20:10:36 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS, ^partman/confirm_new_label$, ^partman/free_space$, ^partman/active_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_partition_(size|type|place)$, ^partman-target/choose_method$, ^partman-basicfilesystems/(fat_mountpoint|mountpoint|mountpoint_manual)$

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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ubiquity --old-partitioner
Feb 9 20:14:35 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
Feb 9 20:14:35 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name, ^countrychooser/shortlist$
Feb 9 20:14:42 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
Feb 9 20:14:42 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Feb 9 20:14:52 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/console-setup/console-setup.postinst', 'configure']' for ubiquity.components.console_setup.ConsoleSetup
Feb 9 20:14:52 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^console-setup/layout, ^console-setup/variant
Feb 9 20:14:52 ubiquity: Setting keyboard layout: pc105 de []
Feb 9 20:14:54 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
Feb 9 20:14:54 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
Feb 9 20:15:03 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/bin/partman']' for ubiquity.components.partman_auto.PartmanAuto
Feb 9 20:15:03 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS

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Raeff (raeff) wrote :

I had the same problem, partman seeming to hang at exactly 46%. After randomly killing some child processes, which didn't work (what a surprise), I decided to quit ubiquity and retry it from start.

Again, a hang at 46%, but this time I chose to wait. After aprox. 5 min. the installation process continued without a flaw...

I couldn't find a reason for this pause.

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Andrew Keyes (akeyes) wrote :

As this bug relates to an old testing release of a prior Ubuntu version without any more recent follow up, I'm marking this as incomplete.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: New → Incomplete
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!
(Old testing install)

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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