Ubiquity crashes installing on raid.

Bug #1078703 reported by TheeMahn
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
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Bug Description

Ubiquity tries to install grub on /dev/sda instead of selected raid array.

Manual partitioning on fakeraided (BIOS)
2 X OCZ Vertex 3 SSD's

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Wed Nov 14 07:48:28 2012
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/Ultimate Edition.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
LiveMediaBuild: Ultimate Edition 3.5 - Release amd64 (20120716)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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TheeMahn (theemahn) wrote :
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TheeMahn (theemahn) wrote :

All mechanical harddisks were removed prior to booting live no /dev/sda resides in the system.
ultimate@ultimate:~/Documents$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 90.0 GB, 90028302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10945 cylinders, total 175836528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004d51c

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 256 347654399 173827072 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 90.0 GB, 90028302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10945 cylinders, total 175836528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/pdc_cgibjdebaa: 178.0 GB, 177999970304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 21640 cylinders, total 347656192 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 131072 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004d51c

                     Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mapper/pdc_cgibjdebaa1 256 347654399 173827072 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 4005 MB, 4005560320 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1017 cylinders, total 7823360 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000db091

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 62 7818695 3909317 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/mapper/pdc_cgibjdebaa1: 178.0 GB, 177998921728 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 21640 cylinders, total 347654144 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 131072 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/pdc_cgibjdebaa1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
ultimate@ultimate:~/Documents$

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1728, in <module>
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: install.run()
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: func(self)
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 204, in run
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 999, in configure_bootloader
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: self.db.input('critical', bootdev)
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: status = int(status)
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Nov 14 12:47:49 ultimate plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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PsYcHoK9 (psychok9) wrote :

Intel i7 3770k cpu with Intel Sata/Raid controller
2x Western Digital Black Caviar 1 TB
2x Stripe + 1x Mirroring configuration

Ubiquity on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.04.1, 12.10 and 13.04 beta (4 february 2013 daily) still doesn't work.

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PsYcHoK9 (psychok9) wrote :

From the terminal I get:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sde1

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/mapper
control isw_cdjeigjbcc_SeaStripe3 isw_cjcihhebae_WdStripe1
isw_cdjeigjbcc_SeaStripe isw_cjcihhebae_WdBack isw_cjcihhebae_WdStripe2
isw_cdjeigjbcc_SeaStripe1 isw_cjcihhebae_WdBack1
isw_cdjeigjbcc_SeaStripe2 isw_cjcihhebae_WdStripe

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Jakob Mühldorfer (jmuehldorfer) wrote :

Confirmed for 12.04 and 13.04 again..

However a manual installation with the right /dev/ instead of sda as argument to grub-install worked for me!

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PsYcHoK9 (psychok9) wrote :

Confirmed on Ubuntu 13.04 beta 2 :(

Jakob, more instructions?
Thanks

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

Ok, we are recently tracking development to fix this on bug 1167366. I will mark this one as duplicate of that one.

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PsYcHoK9 (psychok9) wrote :

@xnox
I can't select anything, Ubuntu freeze before I can select any partitions, and I use normal ubiquity (manual?) installation.

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