installer hangs in feisty

don,
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately, we are
not able to fix and find the bug because your description of the bug
didn't have enough information in it. In particular, we need more information about the hardware you were attempting to install fiesty on. You may find it helpful to read
"How to report bugs effectively",
        http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html.
We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description
of the problem.

Debugging procedures for certain types of problems can be found at
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
Cheers!
Dave Thacker

I am using a Dell Latitude D800 laptop. It has run previous versions of Ubuntu just fine. The screens locks up after entering the time zone and I am not sure if I can get any logs. Please advise what you need me to do to provide more info.

It actually locks after specifying the keyboard and I can access logs using a terminal screen after it locks up. Just tell me what you need.

Using ubiquity 1.3.6

Could you attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman as that will allow the issue to be further investigated. For more information you can look at the wiki page that deals with debugging ubiquity: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity .

Thanks,

Brian

attached is the syslog file. there was no partman file in /var/log/

Confirmed.

To reproduce, run the herd 2 desktop installer in Qemu with the -std-vga option (it fails without that option too, but differently). The installer switches to text mode (without clearing video ram). Note: doing CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-ALT-F7 fixes the screen corruption.

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 73955, and has been fixed in more recent builds of Feisty.