Ubuntu 9.10 beta freezes during installation

[Claudio de Oliveira]

I decided to install the new Ubuntu 9.10 beta on my ThinkPad T61. After downloading and burning the AMD64 alternate image, I proceed to default installation.

Everything went just like 9.04 alternate install, but then, during final installation procedures (something like "set users permissions and passwords"), this setup step stucked at 26%. After 20 min waiting, the 26% mark was still there, but the HD activity led was flashing.

During install, I choosed "manual" partition, setted 240GB to / (ext4), 6GB to swap, and when asked, I setted "yes" to home encryption. My user password has 36 characters.

Last week I ran exactly the same steps with 9.04 AMD64 alternate, on the same machine, and everything worked fine.

[Neil Perry (nperry)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

Many Thanks

Neil Perry