Installation hung at "install partition"

[Stephen Richards]

INstalling Ubuntu on an IBM ThinkPad (4yrs old)

Version 5.10

English language, etc

Installation stops at installin partion -- 52%

Retired with same disk -- same result

Retried with new disk same reult.

[Andrea Veri (av)]

do you get that problem also trying to install dapper beta?

[Stephen Richards (stephen-globalsanctuary)]

Sorry I don't even know what dapper beta is? This is my forst atempt at linux based software.

The lap top currently has Windows 98 installed and I left that in place as the instructions said that all the existign software would be remove by the default installation .. which was fine by me.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Dapper is the next version of Ubuntu - Currently it is at beta 2. YOu
can download CD images for it from cdimage.ubuntu.com

[mungewell (simon-mungewell)]

Can confirm similar behaviour (complete machine lockup) with Xubuntu (i.e. Dapper) Daily May 18th.

Using Thinkpad X22 with Window 2000 Pro (fat32) and external USB CD/DVD drive.

'Live CD' boots and appears to run OK. Had problems with partioner - it would not resize partion (/dev/hda1).I dropped to command line and ran parted manually to resize partion. Copied/moved data OK and then locked up machine.

Since then everytime I attempt to enter the 'manuall edit partition table' stage of the installer I get the same (complete) lockup. This also happens on the command line with cfdisk and parted.

Windows still runs and sees the reduce partion size of 2GByte.

Using a different live CD (DSL based) I can happily run cfdisk to create/delete partions.
Simon.

[mungewell (simon-mungewell)]

Strangely cfdisk shows a '0.04GByte' free space before the Windows partion.

Partion information, read by booting into DSL Live CD.

From cfdisk
---
Partition Table for /dev/hda

         ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
 # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
 1 0x80 1 10 0 0x0C 103 54 1023 63 5757750
 2 0x00 103 54 1023 0x82 103 54 1023 5757813 999648
 3 0x00 103 54 1023 0x05 103 54 1023 6757461 12881691
 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
 5 0x80 103 54 1023 0x83 103 54 1023 54 4880250
 6 0x00 103 54 1023 0x83 103 54 1023 54 8001333
---

from fdisk
---
Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
104 heads, 54 sectors/track, 3497 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 5616 * 512 = 2875392 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1026 2878875 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1026 1204 499824 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 1204 3497 6440845+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 * 1204 2073 2440125 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2073 3497 4000666+ 83 Linux
---

Simon.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

mungewell: completely different bug. Don't mix different issues please.

[mungewell (simon-mungewell)]

Hi.
I managed to get Xubuntu installed (without problems) by moving the harddisk to a desktop machine. When the disk was replaced into laptop the installed system suffers from complete lockups.

Not sure what is triggering them, will try more testing over the weekend.
Simon.

[mungewell (simon-mungewell)]

I continued to get random lockups over the weekend with no specific cause.... these did not occur in 'Safe' (console) mode.

So I switched xservers (from 'ati' to 'vesa') using 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. Since the switch I have not had any lockups.

This is not a real solution, but heh its a good workaround. Just strange that the original lockups always appear to happen at the same place in the install process.

Simon.

[Susanne Faltinat (susanne-faltinat)]

Hi,
I tried to install the most recent Version of XUbuntu ( 8.04) – like Stephen on an old IBM Think Pad, and I experienced the same problem he had with version 5.10.
After choosing "manual" in the partition menue the installation stops at 40%.
The logfile partman shows the correct partitioning of the disk though.

Does anyone have an update on this issue?

Thanks
Susanne