Partition manager wont work on breezy install

[CameronMetzke]

Cant partition sata harddrive on new breezy install, get the go back and
continue option and question marks above them.

[david thompson (thompsond)]

on my ata drives the partitioner hangs on searching all physical volumes

[Dave Rosky (d-rosky)]

I am also having this same problem (only showing the go back,
continue buttons and "???? ????", but it is with an IDE drive
on an IDE channel on a second Promise PCI controller (/dev/hde).

I tried loading/unloading several modules to no avail.

See bug #21456

Dave

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Like #15233, if any of you could extract /var/log/partman and attach it, I'd
appreciate it.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Hi all,

If you are suffering from this bug, please follow these instructions to get me
debugging information:

1) If you can spare the machine in question for a while, please try not to "fix"
the partitioning such that this bug goes away. I consider this the most serious
installer bug currently open, and I'd like to make sure that people can continue
to reproduce this bug until it's been properly fixed.

2) Download
http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/13250/breezy-install-i386-debug.iso; this
is not a real installation CD, because I've removed all the .debs from it in
order to make it reasonably quick for people to download (it's 35MB). However,
it does contain the installer, with a modified partman-base package that prints
extra debugging information to /var/log/partman during the code paths that seem
to be crashing.

3) Burn this to CD, and boot from it.

4) Run through the installer in the usual way until you reach the "Partition
disks" stage. At this point, either you will see the main menu (in which case
the bug isn't reproducible for you) or it will fail as before.

5) If it fails, please extract /var/log/partman as before and attach it to this
bug. You can do this by, for example, pressing Alt-F2, entering 'anna-install
openssh-client-udeb' to install scp in the installer's ramdisk, and then using
scp to copy that file to another machine.

Thanks in advance.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36213.