Partitioning does not work correctly during install of Raring ARM

[Carla Sella]

During installation of this image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20121211/raring-desktop-armhf+omap4.img on a pandaboard I have problems with partitioning a USB key on which I want to install Raring.
The USB key has no partition table.
When I get to the partitioning window, I create a partition table on the USB key, then I add a ext2 partition changing the size, the proposed size is 16009 MB, I change it to 8000, select / as mount point, confirm, but I get a 16009 MB partition created even if I changed it to 8000.
Tried this various times but the behaviour is always the same.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.13.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-215.22-omap4 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-215-omap4 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: armhf
CasperVersion: 1.330
Date: Tue Dec 11 18:32:01 2012
InstallCmdLine: fixrtc quiet splash -- boot=casper only-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha armhf+omap4 (20121211)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
Architecture: armhf
CasperVersion: 1.330
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
InstallCmdLine: fixrtc quiet splash -- boot=casper only-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha armhf+omap4 (20130113)
MarkForUpload: True
Package: ubiquity 2.13.9
PackageArchitecture: armhf
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-216.23-omap4 3.5.7.1
Tags: raring ubiquity-2.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-216-omap4 armv7l
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1089090

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

This happened also with this daily image of Raring: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20130113/raring-desktop-armhf+omap4.img.
But this time I was installing on a USB key with one single ext2 partition.
When I got to the partitioning window, I deleted the ext2 partition and then chose to add a 6 GB ext4 / partition, but after confirming I got a 16009 MB partition.

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

So I can affirm that if you delete all partitions on a USB key both from the beginning before starting install or after on the partitioning window partitioning does not work any more in ubiquity.

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

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[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

I can reproduce this bug also on today's Raging image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20130211/raring-desktop-armhf+omap4.img.
1 - Format a USB key with one FAT32 partition.
2 - Start installing Raring on a Pandaboard from the SD card onto the USB key formatted at point 1.
3 - During install select "something else" from the installation type window.
4 - Delete the FAT32 partition, and try to create a smaller one, for instance I have a 16GB USB Key and I tried to create a 6GB ext2 / partition.
After confirming the creation of the 6GB ext2 partition you will be presented with a 16GB ext2 partion, the dimension of the partition is as big as the USB key and you will not be able to create two smaller ones, for instance.

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

Had same problem today with image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20130314/raring-desktop-armhf+omap4.img.
I'm attaching the partman log file.
Also this time:
- Had a USB key with one ext2 partition
- Cancelled it so there was no partition
- Tried to add a partiton of 700MB but got one partiton of the total size of the USB key
could not create partitions of size smaller than the total size of the USB key.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

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