Ubiquity freezes at 100% (Copying Installation Logs)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I am testing the Ubiquity version on the current Hardy liveCD alpha.

At night Ubiquity was at 100% complete (Copying Installation Logs). When I woke up in the morning it was still at 100% (Copying Installation Logs). Ubquity does not appear to be using any CPU or accessing the harddisk.

After running the install (but not rebooting from harddisk) I found that /var/log was 4.6MB in size. The biggest log was for parted.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 10 20:08:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: ubiquity 1.7.6
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

Please try one of the later builds. I also had a problem with an
earlier build, but now cannot remember which one. You
used 2.6.24-5 and I did not have a problem with 24-7 or
the most recent 24-8.

[dorkdork777 (dorkdork777)]

I can confirm this bug still exists in 8.04 Alpha 6. Happened at the end of install, has been there for 1 hr now.

[Damiano Dallatana (damidalla)]

I also confirm this bug still exists in alpha6 of Hardy Heron. Every few minutes (or seconds) Ubiquity does something reading the disk with some CPU activity, but it does not seem to produce nothing useful. Just stuck on this.
I think now I'll reboot and hope nothing else has to be done (I do not think there is something else ubiquity has to do, as the setup is complete and GRUB, hardware config and everything else has been done), but that's a really annoying bug

[Christopher Rawlings (rawlinc)]

I can also confirm that this still exists in Hardy Heron Beta that was just released.

[Yfff (yfff)]

I confirm the confirmation others confirmed :-/ Freezes at 100%

"top" reveals ubiquity is using 4 to 5 % CPU. Maybe this can help :

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsof | grep ubiquity
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tmpfs file system /cow
      Output information may be incomplete.
ubiquity 9035 ubuntu cwd unknown /proc/9035/cwd (readlink: Permission denied)
ubiquity 9035 ubuntu rtd unknown /proc/9035/root (readlink: Permission denied)
ubiquity 9035 ubuntu txt unknown /proc/9035/exe (readlink: Permission denied)
ubiquity 9035 ubuntu NOFD /proc/9035/fd (opendir: Permission denied)

Keep going, guys...

Yfff

[Evan (ev)]

When ubiquity hangs, can you run `ps auxf` and paste the part of the tree that contains ubiquity and all of its children?

Thanks

[iGadget (igadget)]

Same here on Hardy Beta. Output of 'ps auxf', part of the tree that contains ubiquity:

ubuntu 9652 0.0 0.5 14740 5320 ? S 15:18 0:00 gksudo --desktop file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/ubiquity-gtkui.desktop -- hal-lock --interface
root 9654 0.0 0.1 3400 1052 ? Ss 15:18 0:00 \_ hal-lock --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage --exclusive --run /usr/lib/ubiqu
ubuntu 9655 2.7 3.3 48704 34664 ? S 15:18 1:09 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
root 29021 0.0 1.4 18448 15456 ? S 15:26 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive ubiquity
root 29023 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:26 0:00 \_ [log-output] <defunct>

[Megaqwerty (matthewb)]

I can also confirm this bug's existence in the Hardy Beta

[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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]