crash in partitioner

[Trent Lloyd]

Trying the Ubuntu LTS live cd - a fairly standard English, US keyboard install, however has a custom partition, the intsaller starts "Creating file system".. after a little whilwe the "Starting partitioner' screen comes up, then disappears and the installer has exited with no indication of failure

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

espresso log file contains a few errors, notably the /dev/sda3 swap stuff.

[Scott Norris (scottie-z)]

Same problem. Had a previously setup partition table from a Breezy/XP dual-boot machine. Got through all of the dialogs and hit "Install." It appeared to create fresh ext3 partitions on the ones I said to format (/boot, /). Then it said "Starting Partitioner" again, and exited without any message. Later inspection reveals that the installer successfully reformated the indicated partitions, but died before putting anything on them ... :)

Possibly relevant machine specs are:

MB: ECS RS480-M
HD: Seagate Barracude 250GB

[Scott Norris (scottie-z)]

Is there a good way to add several files to a comment?

[Scott Norris (scottie-z)]

During the dialog process, this screen shows the partitioner step. I only attached it because some of the Kubuntu folk couldn't get to this step.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I need somebody who suffers from this problem to run espresso with 'ESPRESSO_DEBUG=1 sudo espresso' and attach the resulting log. (Make sure to use a throwaway password, as the password appears in the log in debug mode.)

[True-night (hlpimfalling)]

I could not run the espresso with ESPRESSO_DEBUG=1 sudo espresso, so I tried to figure out what was going on. I decided to install the gtk frontend for espresso, and when I did that, running the previous command works, in fact it seems like it is installing. I don't know if this helps any, however it may.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

True-night: our live CD comes with all the necessary pieces already installed. I *really* wouldn't recommend trying to install it on some other kind of system unless you have an encyclopaedic knowledge of exactly what you're doing.

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Yeah I learnt about the DEBUG option last night, will do that today.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Trent, any luck with getting that debug log?

[Corey Woodworth (coreywoodworth)]

This could possibly be a duplicate of Bug #39348

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It could be, but without a debug log or a traceback in either case I cannot tell.

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Unfortunately I have been unable to get back to this machine (its actually someone I knows) to do this

I'll let you know when I can

[Jose Pirlot (jose-pirlot)]

I encounter exactly the same problem with dapper 6.06 beta2 live, as Scott explains when I try to use the custom patitioning function.

M/B : Asus A7N8X-XE, 512 Kb, Athlon XP 2000+,
Hard drive : Hitachi 160 GO SATA II Deskstar HDT722516DLA380

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This really does look like a duplicate of bug 39734. Trent, if you can reproduce this with Flight CD 7 or newer, then please let me know and we can investigate further. Thanks.

[Jose Pirlot (jose-pirlot)]

I tried to install Flight CD 7 and the same problem occurs.
Trace :
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1084, in watch_debconf_fd_helper
    return callback(source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 143, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 81, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 219, in process_line
    if not input_widgets[0].run(priority, question):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/components/partman_commit.py", line 123, in run
    ('ubiquity/text/go_back', 'ubiquity/text/continue'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1463, in question_dialog
    dialog = gtk.Dialog(title, transient, gtk.DIALOG_MODAL, tuple(buttons))
RuntimeError: first member of each text/response id pair must be a string

My hardware config :
M/B : Asus A7N8X-XE, 512 Kb, Athlon XP 2000+,
Hard drive : Hitachi 160 GO SATA II Deskstar HDT722516DLA380

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Jose: this is already filed as bug 43012.

[Jose Pirlot (jose-pirlot)]

Ok, thanks

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