Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Does Not Install On IBM r40e From Using The Live Desktop Installer.

Thank you for the report, but this is not a launchpad bug, re-assigning to Ubuntu.
We're interested in why you accidentally recorded this bug as occurring in malone instead of Ubuntu. If you can explain what happened, please let us know in bug 88818.

Hi

Sorry about logging the error in the wrong place. I followed the links from
the Kubuntu site which lead me to malone.

If you can confirm where exactly I should have logged this then I will
ensure I don't make this mistake again.

Apologies once again.

Cheers

Andy

On 23/04/07, Diogo Matsubara <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the report, but this is not a launchpad bug, re-assigning to
> Ubuntu.
> We're interested in why you accidentally recorded this bug as occurring in
> malone instead of Ubuntu. If you can explain what happened, please let us
> know in bug 88818.
>
> ** Changed in: malone (upstream)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
>
> ** Also affects: Ubuntu
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: Unconfirmed
>
> --
> Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Does Not Install On IBM r40e From Using The Live
> Desktop Installer.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109431
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The Live CD installer, ubiquity, should provide some kind of output when it crashes. Does it in fact crash or does it become unresponsive? Thanks in advance.

Brian

Thanks for your mail.

I can confirm that the installer just hangs on the "detecting filesystems"
dialog. The progress bar does start to increase when the dialog first
appears and the stops at around 15%. The interesting thing is that the file
system had been formatted (I previously had Kubuntu Dapper and a small XP
partition). I did try the installer 3 times, the last of which I left it
for over an hour just to make sure it wasn't just running slow. After the
first attempt the hard drive had been formatted so it would have had a clean
drive to partition.

Not sure if it helps but as previously mentioned the machine was a IBM
Thinkpad R40e (1.2ghz 512mb and 30gb HD). I attempted to create the
following partitions :

8gb root
1024 swap
rest /home

One other thing to note is the R40e has know issue's with the ACPI
implementation, I had passed the "noacpi" parameter to the kernel at boot.

Hope this information helps. If you need any further info or I can test
anything for you let me know.

Cheers

Andy

On 25/04/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. The Live CD installer, ubiquity, should provide some kind of
> output when it crashes. Does it in fact crash or does it become
> unresponsive? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
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> Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Does Not Install On IBM r40e From Using The Live
> Desktop Installer.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109431
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

If you could include the logs file indicated at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs that may help us determine what the issue is. Thanks again for all your help.

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.

Brian

Thanks for your mail. I am afraid that I was unable to get to the logs as
the patitioning tool in the installer would, as previously described, leave
me with no accessable file system after the crash.

I'm afraid I had to install an OS as I need to do some development work
urgently and therefore have opted for Debian ("lenny"). If I get the chance
to attempt to install Fiesty again I will let you know.

Cheers

Andy

On 29/05/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in
> the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further.
> However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and
> feel free to submit bug reports in the future.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Status: Needs Info => Rejected
>
> --
> Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Does Not Install On IBM r40e From Using The Live
> Desktop Installer.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109431
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>