[hardy] alpha-3: i386 desktop cd - partition gui hangs

[Chris Cheney]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Evan as per our IRC conversation I have included the partman/syslog/debug files.

Thanks,

Chris

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

It got past the screen and then I selected manual which took a long time to get past as well but it seems to be working, just very very slow for whatever reason.

Chris

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I noticed when I tried to change the mount point on /dev/sda6 (vfat fat32) it is taking a very long time to complete the operation, changing the mount points on the other partitions /dev/sda1 (/media/vista) /dev/sda2 (/) they completed almost immediately.

As a side note when I had /dev/sda6 in /etc/fstab set to fsck (1 or 2) it would seem to take a long time to boot, I don't know if the issues are related but I have done a full fsck on the filesystem since then and it appeared to be ok.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Ok, it finally finished installing and after it rebooted it took a while at the secondary fsck item. I think it was running fsck on /dev/sda6 (vfat fat32). Is that what is happening during the install process also? And if so how does it know if a vfat fat32 partition is clean or dirty. I don't recall it taking a long time to install in the past when there was a fat32 partition on a system.

I manually ran fsck.vfat on the partition after it finished booting and it seemed to be fine.

Chris

root@laptop-c2d:~# fsck.vfat -v /dev/sda6
dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSWIN4.1"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     65536 bytes per cluster
        32 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 16384 (sector 32)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   4525568 bytes per FAT (= 8839 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 9067520 (sector 17710)
   1131314 data clusters (74141794304 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 255 heads
 167750793 hidden sectors
 144825912 sectors total
Checking for unused clusters.
Checking free cluster summary.
/dev/sda6: 214325 files, 887049/1131314 clusters

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I logged a full install today with set -x in various /lib/partman/* files. It appears there is something causing a error handler to be called and it appears it takes 3.5m for some sort of timeout. I am including the three log files like last night.

Chris

[zenith (lasse-bigum)]

I experienced this as well. It took ages to do the "Starting the partition manager" or whatever it says, and I ended up closing it, killing all processes by it, and then starting it again. It did not quite work, and then I noticed that it kept complaining about /dev/sdd using a size of something of 2048. I then remembered I had my iPod plugged in. Unplugging it and restarting the installer helped me.

The installer did seem to have some problems though. I had to shut it down a few times and start it again as it kept hanging on the screen where I choose the language to use for the install.

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

I had similar problems with earlier builds, but the most recent build
of alpha-5 (Feb.22) partitioned, formatted and installed without a hitch.
Do you have the same problem with the most recent build?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I'll have to wait to test this on my machine until after I have OpenOffice packages done and uploaded since it was happening on my main development laptop. Hopefully that will be by the end of the week.

Thanks,

Chris

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

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