[Hardy] ubiquity hangs at hardware setup

[Jan Rathmann]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I tried to install Hardy from the current amd64 daily live-cd (20080221) and stumbled upon several issues.

- On the first attempt ubiquity hang after the migration assistent (I chose not to import anything), but could be quit normaly (by clicking the cancel button).

- On the second attempt it failed to format the partition I selected as root file system (I chose manual partitioning). During this stage several nautilus windows popped up showing the contents of some of my other harddisk partitions, so maybe if failed because the partition that should be formated got mounted before somehow (it was not empty). Then ubiquity returned to the partitioning window and was finally able to format the partition after I unmounted it manually.

- Then the installation began, but the process got frozen at 94% (hardware setup). When I clicked the close button after ~10 minutes had passed, it quit without any error message or question dialog.

My system configuration:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
CPU: Intel Conroe E6550
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
Graphics card: Geforce 7600 GS
Disk drives: 1 Samsung model 120 GB IDE Primary Master,
                   1 Fujitsu model 30 GB IDE Primary Slave (containing Windows)
Optical drives: Plextor PX-712SA on first Sata connector
                       TEAC CD-W512EB on second Sata connector
Additional sound card Create Labs Soundblaster Live Value (secondary)

Kind regards,
Jan

[Celeste Lyn Paul (seele)]

Same thing here:

Installer begins partitioning and copying of packages but hangs during the hardware configuration (94%).

Found in Kubuntu Hardy daily build for 2008/02/21 (Ubiquity 1.7.10)