Intrepid Live CD - Partition Fail - Resize operation failure

[komputes]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I tried to install Ubuntu 8.04.1 from an Alternate CD and then install Ubuntu 8.10 Beta from a Live CD. The 8.10 CD boots correctly, but at Step 4 of 7 (Prepare disk space) I have found a few things that surprised me.

I selected
Guided - resize SCSI3 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) and use free space

I would expect that when I resize the drive an actual percentage change happens in the "After section" for "/dev/sda1" "/dev/sda5" and "Ubuntu 8.10" except Ubuntu 8.10 has a negative number (eg. -34%) when the bar right below it says it is using up 61% of the drive! Very confusing.

After sliding the partition line to create a dual boot Hardy/Intrepid system the partitioner gets half way into resizing the partition when it pooches out and gives the following error:

Resize operation failure
An error occurred while writing changes to the storage devices.
The resize operation has been aborted.

I highly recommend that more testing be made on the partitioner in Intrepid, otherwise simply bring back this step from Hardy. New graphics are nice but at this stage functionality is key.

[komputes (komputes)]

Percentage shows swap space changing (wrong) and new partition shows as negative number (wrong) shown in attached video.

[komputes (komputes)]

Error Screenshot

Resize operation failure
An error occurred while writing changes to the storage devices.
The resize operation has been aborted.

[komputes (komputes)]

After recording the error I got, I rebooted, took the CD off the Software Sources, downloaded recordmydesktop-gtk and as I was trying to record while reproducing the issue, the partition worked and Intrepid was able to install.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

While screenshots and videos are useful demonstrations, unfortunately what we actually need is log files. If you reproduce this again, /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman (in the live CD, after reproducing the bug) are the files we need.

The negative numbers in partition labels are filed elsewhere, and fixed for the next ubiquity upload.

[Wout (fluodude)]

I have a Dell M1330 , with a standard (dell) Vista home premium on it. I tried installing ubuntu 8.10 64bit and got stuk in exactly the same spot (resizing 0%) . On rebooting , my vista had to do a chkdsk. If I tried installing after the error occured without starting vista and running chkdsk. No partitions were detected anymore.
My wife has the same laptop , only I installed HArdy on that one a few months ago without any problems. Should I go with a fresh Hardy install and then imediatly upgrade it ?

[Wout (fluodude)]

I resized in vista and then did install on the empy space , this worked for me

[Kainourgiakis Giorgos (kaingeo)]

Same here, i was trying to install intrepid dual boot with vista in two laptops but i received the message:

Resize operation failure
An error occurred while writing changes to the storage devices.
The resize operation has been aborted.

The same think happen in a Virtualbox Win XP installation. this bug is very important because we can not install dual boot systems easily.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Of course it is important, but as I mentioned a few comments back I need those log files (/var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman) or else we can't do anything about it ...

[Uddhava das (uddhava-kks)]

Similar problem here.
Rebooted windows twice.
Will run a chkntfs also.

Could only find the syslog file. Running this from CD of course.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

The symptom I have is similar -- I choose the default resizing option for Vista and without the progressbar even starting to scroll it fails. I'm attaching my logs.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It looks like you had both a bad cd, and a corrupt ntfs. Please try again after running chkdsk /f from windows.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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