[Flight 7] installer crashed trying to select partition for mount point

[Morgan Collett]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I selected manual partitioning to create a separate partition for /home. I created hda1 for /, hda2 for future use, hda3 for /home and hda5 for swap.

On the next page to select the mount points, it defaulted correctly to / for hda1 and swap for hda5. In the third block I selected /home, but only hda1, hda2 and hda5 were listed in the drop down options - no hda3.

In the fourth entry I could see hda3 in the drop down, but when I selected it there the installer crashed with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 586, in on_list_changed
    self.size_widgets[index].set_text(self.set_size_msg(self.partition_widgets[index]))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 442, in set_size_msg
    size = float(self.size[self.part_devices[widget.get_active_text()].split('/')[2]])
KeyError: 'hda3'

[Morgan Collett (morgan)]

Includes the traceback

[Morgan Collett (morgan)]

On a subsequent attempt, it picked up the partitions created in this attempt and worked correctly.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I can confirm similar thing happening with 2005-05-20 amd64 live-cd. I selected manual partinioning, did not do any changes and went to mount point selection page. I had 5 partitions automatically inserted, but changes the three last ones to have all blank rows. Then I changed the second row to point to an existing swap partition, selected swap use type and removed "format" selection. To the first row I selected /dev/sda6, selected "/" as the mount point and let the format selection be selected.

Clicking next I got a crash, but don't have traceback or syslog at the moment. I had an impression there was some mention about these "blank" rows. Anyway, I've also gotten similar crashes before when doing these partition selections and clicking next.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Okay, it was easy to reproduce. Attaching partman log and the traceback (as a picture).

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

A log after the crash.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

traceback as a png

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Timo, if you get a different traceback, then it's a different bug and should not be attached to this one. Thank you.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

That said, Timo, I see your problem and it'll be fixed in ubiquity 1.0.1.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Yes, sorry about that. Thanks for the fix, perhaps the original bug is also fixed but Morgan should check that. I'll change the bug subject back to original.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

For what it's worth, you should be able to avoid this bug if you avoid going backwards and forwards between the advanced partitioning page and the mountpoint selection page.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fix on its way to dapper-updates. I'll close this once it's accepted there and once I've also uploaded the fix to edgy.

ubiquity (1.0.14) dapper-updates; urgency=low

  * debian/rules install target depends on build (closes: Malone #54503).
  * Add 3% to the "Removing extra packages" stage of the installation
    progress bar, since in Ubuntu installations it often has a lot of
    language packs to remove.
  * Work around weirdness regarding some partitions going missing from
    part_labels/part_devices in frontends. The right fix is probably to
    update part_labels/part_devices with information from gparted/qtparted,
    but since that system is due to be replaced anyway it's probably not
    worth the effort (closes: Malone #45200).
  * Add/update .desktop file translations from Rosetta: Arabic, Belarusian,
    Bosnian, Czech, Spanish, Estonian, Frisian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian,
    Malay, Slovak, Swedish, Tajik, Ukrainian, Chinese (Taiwan).
  * Add/update translations from Rosetta: Arabic, Belarusian, Breton,
    Kashubian, Danish, Spanish, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Malay,
    Serbian, Thai, Tagalog.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 01:28:11 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (1.1.5) edgy; urgency=low

  * Add 3% to the "Removing extra packages" stage of the installation
    progress bar, since in Ubuntu installations it often has a lot of
    language packs to remove.
  * Work around weirdness regarding some partitions going missing from
    part_labels/part_devices in frontends. The right fix is probably to
    update part_labels/part_devices with information from gparted/qtparted,
    but since that system is due to be replaced anyway it's probably not
    worth the effort (closes: Malone #45200).
  * Suppress unnecessary translations of "${MESSAGE}".
  * Remove some cruft from the source package.
  * Make zoom-in.png global rather than distribution-specific.
  * Remove intltool-* on distclean; configure creates them.
  * Move liveinstaller.glade to a better place in the source package, and
    rename it to ubiquity.glade.
  * Update debian/copyright regarding the status of Ubiquity with respect to
    the original Guadalinex work.
  * Move glade/pixmaps/* to pixmaps/*; they can be used in non-GTK frontends
    too.
  * Remove netcloner script; if this is ever resurrected, it should probably
    be an init script or similar instead.
  * Move documentation to doc/ directory; remove obsolete TODO; note that
    the README is largely obsolete.
  * Stop installing README.es.
  * Remove cruft from ubiquity.settings.
  * Retranslate "Step N of M" immediately when the language is changed.
  * Tighten ubiquity's dependencies on frontend and artwork packages.
  * Don't build ubiquity-frontend-{gtk,kde}_*.deb if the respective
    UBIQUITY_NO_{GTK,KDE} is defined.
  * Check whether squashfs devices exist before trying to mount them.
  * Ship all the bits of localechooser we need, and drop our dependency on
    localechooser-data (closes: Malone #40364).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:13:43 +0100