Can't create new partitions

[Jared Schlicht]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I just tried booting the Kubuntu Hardy Alpha2 release in a virtual machine.

Obviously, I created a disk image which gives you a blank partition table. When I selected "Manual Partitioning" in the installer, my only choice was to create a new partition table, then I clicked the confirmation button.

After that, however, I do not get an option to create new partitions. It did actually create a new partition table (as confirmed by running cfdisk manually), but no GUI option becomes available to create new partitions.

The only option available is to create a new partition table (again).

I eventually went with the guided partitioner which worked fine.

Maybe this is related to this bug?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/57583

[Peter Liedler (peter-liedler)]

I can confirm this one on hardy alpha 5 kde4 i386 installer.
Installing on a clean partition without a partition table only offers you the possibility to create a new partition table.
After doing this the disk is NOT reloaded and the new partition table is not written to disk. Because when you move a step forward, and back to partitioning again where disk is scanned again there is still no partition table.

Workaround: manually create the partition table with qtparted or fdisk (or ...) and restart ubiquity

[Eduardo Cereto (dudus)]

I'm marking this bug as Invalid since it's about a problem in hardy alpha, and hasn't received any comments for almost a year.