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[GUTSY] Crash after partition formated

Bug #133132 reported by Patrice Vetsel on 2007-08-17

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Evan	Ubuntu tribe-6

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity
I attach /var/log/install/debug
I have this bug under vmware server and it's reproductible
ubiquity 1.5.8 under desktop-i386 2007/08/17

Description of duplicate of this bug (133878) :
When installing Gutsy Gibbon, installation fails with message: The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed.

It seems that as the installer is autodetecting the drives, gnome-volume-manager automatically mounts them, therefore preventing an ext3 partition to be made on the device.

The workaround I used was to go into System Monitor and manually kill gnome-volume-manager.

After I did this, installation continued successfully.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Make sure you have a SATA drive in your computer
2) Run the Ubuntu Installer
3) You should encounter the error

Version Information: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Tribe 4

See original description

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote on 2007-08-17:

/var/log/install/debug Edit (181.5 KiB, text/plain)

/var/log/install/debug

Justin M. Wray (wray-justin) on 2007-08-17

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	New → Confirmed

Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) on 2007-08-20

Changed in ubiquity:
importance:	Undecided → High

Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) on 2007-08-21

description:

updated

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Wousser (wousser) wrote on 2007-08-28:

I can confirm this bug, my debug log only says the Ubiquity version: 1.5.11

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote on 2007-08-31:

Patrice, is there anything already installed on that drive? Specifically if it has a swap partition on it, the drive may be mounted to use that. Do you know if the drive is mounted from boot? Do you have some reason to believe that it is upon starting the installer that it's mounted?

Changed in ubiquity:
assignee:	nobody → evand

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Eduard Wulff (mail-eduard-wulff) wrote on 2007-09-02:

I can confirm this with Gutsy Kubuntu Tribe 5

Trying to format /dev/sda7 hangs the installer at "5%" (formatting /dev/sda7).

I can format via qtparted or mkfs.xfs but since the installer wants to format the partition when installing "/" on it pre-formatting is no help ...

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Evan (ev) wrote on 2007-09-05:

Patrice, or anyone who is experiencing this bug in Ubuntu, can you try the install using one of the latest daily live CDs (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/)? I believe the bug is no longer present.

Thanks!

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Evan (ev) wrote on 2007-09-05:

Eduard,
You appear to be experiencing a different bug. I cannot reproduce this bug on Kubuntu Tribe 5.
Can you please open a new bug report, run the installer again using the --debug option, and attach /var/log/installer/debug, /var/log/partman, and /var/log/syslog to the new report?

Thanks!

Evan (ev) on 2007-09-06