ubiquity hangs (no activity forever) at configuring target system

Bug #955617 reported by Len Ovens
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
casper (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson

Bug Description

This just started happening the last few days. (less than a week, but march 13 and 14 ISOs for sure) Everything seems to installing fine till the message line says configuring target system. The progress bar gets about 1/4 over then stops. Disk activity stops, and nothing more happens. Ubiquity still waiting now over 1/2 hour later. Booted to live ubuntu studio live DVD ISO from SD card. Then double clicked install icon on desktop. Ubiquity started up fine took information to install and started installing... worked fine till hang.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.309
Date: Wed Mar 14 17:22:59 2012
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120314)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Len Ovens (len-ovenwerks) wrote :
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Scott Lavender (slavender) wrote :

luke (themuso) commented on IRC "livecd-rootfs package needs updating to use the lowlatency kernel for studio" (0)

i will follow up in #ubuntu-devel

(0)http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/03/15/%23ubuntustudio-devel.html

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

OK, so I've added a bug task for that; but ubiquity still shouldn't hang.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This is actually due to reconfiguring jackd2; the kernel issue is entirely unrelated.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I've split out the kernel bits to bug 956250.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
no longer affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) → casper (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package casper - 1.312

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casper (1.312) precise; urgency=low

  * bin/casper-reconfigure: Unset DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND, DEBIAN_FRONTEND, and
    DEBCONF_REDIR so that casper-reconfigure properly uses the
    noninteractive frontend when invoked from a ubiquity target-config hook
    (LP: #955617).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:06:38 +0000

Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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