ubiquity hangs on step 2 (Karmic RC)

[CamilleM]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When you launch directly the installation or launch it from the live session, ubiquity "hangs" on step 2: when you hit "next" on step 2, "Previous" and "next" buttons are disabled and the application hangs. You can still use the "Quit" button though.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 25 02:02:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.2)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[CamilleM (camille-moulin)]

The problem was actually caused by a HD SD card in the card reader that just support plain SD cards.
Removing the card solved everything. So, even if it would be desirable that the installation process doesn't hang when something is unexpected like that, the issue is really minor now.
Feel free to ask for more info if you think it's worth debugging or just close the bug.

[Rasiq (ricardoamsiqueira)]

Also happens here. Using Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 RC. This bug affects drastically who wants to install the home partition into a SDHC Card. Since a lot of netbooks works with both internal flash and external media expansion a workaround/fix is needed to the final release. The system crashes on install, partition step, when trying to identify active disks.

[Evan (ev)]

Moving to the kernel team due to the blocking modprobe call in the syslog.

[Jonppe (jaalto-hotmail)]

UNR 9.10rc installation from usb-stick crashed also on my Asus eee 901. I tried it several times with slightly different file system settings, using both live-test mode and direct installation.
Crash report claimed it was language-support-checker that had crashed, but the installation seemed to stop on file system formatting.

Later, Ubuntu 9.10rc installation worked fine.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi CamilleM,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 460121

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[CamilleM (camille-moulin)]

Tried with the latest Lucid Netbook version and can't reproduce the issue.
So looks like it's fixed.