[kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes when handling many partitions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Precise |
Won't Fix
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Quantal |
Won't Fix
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
when choosing manual partitioning, installer crashes when setting mount points. after many attempts where the installer just disapeared, I got:
Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
return self.createInde
AttributeError: Partition instance has no attribute 'row'
Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
parentItem = childItem.parent()
AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'
Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
parentItem = childItem.parent()
AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'
rather frustrating - I can set up 2 or 3 partitions before it crashes. I have 2 disks, sda and sdb and it doesn't reliably crash on any particular partition or disk. My Machine is currently a dual-boot Kubuntu 10.04 / Win 7 Ultimate. I wanted a complete fresh start for 12.04 so I was going to format the linux partitions
sda1 bootable, NTFS
sda2 Extended
sda5 ext4 /home
sda6 ext4 /var
sdb1 NTFS
sdb2 bootable ext4 /boot
sdb3 Extended
sdb5 ext4 /
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Sat Aug 18 21:28:52 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
TERM=xterm
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
- Ubuntu Installer Team: Pending requested
- Diff: 0 lines
- Jonathan Riddell: Pending requested
-
Diff: 25 lines (+5/-0)1 file modifiedubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py (+5/-0)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Kubuntu Developers (kubuntu-dev) |
tags: | added: kubuntu |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-12.04.2 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
summary: |
- manual partitioning in installer crashes + [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
assignee: | Kubuntu Developers (kubuntu-dev) → nobody |
tags: | added: rls-q-notfixing |
summary: |
- [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes + [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes when handling many + partitions |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-12.04.2 → ubuntu-12.04.3 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-14.04 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Although I haven't looked at any debugging/traceback information, I can confirm that this behavior occurs, across multiple Kubuntu-based distros. For example, not only does it happen with Kubuntu 12.04, it also happens with Mint 13 "KDE" and Netrunner 4 "Dryland" 2nd Ed, which are also based on Kubuntu 12.04.
I have over 10 existing partitions on my hard drive. When I run the Kubuntu installer, I'm lucky if I can tell the installer which partitions to mount for root, swap, and maybe one to three others before the installer just quits. I usually end up having to add the other partitions to /etc/fstab manually post-installation.
Curiously, this has never happened while installing an Ubuntu-based, as opposed to Kubuntu-based, distro (i.e. using ubiquity with the GTK UI).