KDE manual partition failed

Bug #91411 reported by Karsten
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Colin Watson

Bug Description

I started to install Kubuntu 6.10 with graphical frontend.
I want a special installation because i have installed many operating systems and i am using bootstar as Boot-Manager.
So i can't use the standard options.
When starting the manual partition manager it crashed after reading the HD and entering the configuration.
(I want to install Kubuntu on the 4th partition with 8 GB, the 5th partition is swap with 256 MB)

Now i installed Kubuntu with the Text-Mode.
Here it works.
I could configure the partitions and define the mount-points.

BUT it have overwritten my MBR without any question !!!
(For that i will open another bug)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. When the manual partitioner crashed on the Live CD did it give you an error message at all? That would help us out. The most helpful thing in debugging this would be log files as indicated here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs . Thanks in advance.

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Karsten (zilli) wrote :

As i can remember i have choosen the manual partition.
Then it started to analyze the HD.
Then a blank screen appeared with the hints what to do but without any partition informations.
The only think i could do was clicking the "next" button.
Then a message appears that the partition program has crashed.

In the bootmanager i can select which partitions could be seen by the operating system.
When i only activate the 4th partition as root-partition it works and i can see it.
But then i am missing the swap.
When i also enable the swap with the bootmanager then it crashes.
The both partitions where partitionized correctly with type 82 and 83.

That's all folks.

Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: brian-murray → nobody
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Could you please attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman to this bug, following the directions in http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs? Thanks in advance.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

(Brian already asked for this, but I wanted to stress that I cannot do anything at all with your problem without the crash message, and I typically need log files as well.)

Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → kamion
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Karsten (zilli) wrote :

Sorry - but i have gone back to Debian ;-)
The installation has been overwritten.

You must search the error in reading and analyzing of the partition table.
My Bootmanager is publishing only the activated partitions as partitionized.
The other partitions looks like not partitionized.
I think that is the problem in the software.

There was a non partitionized block first and then the root partition followed by a swap partition.
Then again some not partitionized block.

This are the test conditions.

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Karsten (zilli) wrote :

Hi,

i want to try a new installation of Kubuntu on the same machine.
If you have some new stuff that i should test then please tell me.
Otherwise i will directly take the text-installer ...

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I would still appreciate it if you could try to reproduce your previous problem and supply the log files I asked for last time. (There is a newer release available, but I would like to find out what the bug you reported actually was.)

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Karsten (zilli) wrote :

O.K. I will try it. It should be no problem because it crashes before the partition is done.
Then i complete the installation in the text-mode and try to find and copy the logs.
But this will take some time. I hope i will have the time in the next week ...

I have the DVD V6.10 for AMD64. It is a double-core CPU.
At this time there is only the kubuntu-6.06.1-dvd-amd64.iso for dowload ?
Was the V6.10 not stable enough ?
I can remember that i also have problems to select and install packages after the installation was complete.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) 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!

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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