Freezes in manual partitioning

[Carl-Erik Kopseng]

I get to the screen where I can choose between letting the installer take care of the formatting or manually edit it myself. Bottom left corner says "Step 5 of 6".
I tick off the option for manual editing, and press "Forward".
A "greyed out" (disabled) gparted (?) interface shows up in the windows, and a loading bar briefly shows itself, saying "Scanning all devices", and then... nothing. A pretty much blank window, where the only text is in the bottom left corner stating something about reserving at least 2gigs of space for the root partition. Pressing <enter> on the "Forward" button crashes the installer.

This is a similar, but not identical to bug #47002. He gets a disabled gparted interface and a spinning progress bar, whereas I end up with a blank screen. But again, it might be that when he means "freezes" he actually means this blank screen. But the installer is still responsive, so I don't think it qualifies for a "freeze" condition.

ps. Can someone please remove the comments where I posted the full output? I could not find an attach option at the time...

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py",
line 266, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py",
line 738, in process_step
    self.gparted_to_mountpoints()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py",
line 815, in gparted_to_mountpoints
    print >>self.gparted_subp.stdin, "apply"
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stdin'

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

Ubiquity 1.0.12
Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:37:39 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
to , 08 jun 2006 10:37:54 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
to , 08 jun 2006 10:37:55 INFO switched to page stepLocation
to , 08 jun 2006 10:37:55 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
to , 08 jun 2006 10:38:05 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
to , 08 jun 2006 10:38:05 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
to , 08 jun 2006 10:38:05 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: no-latin1
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout no
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Slovakisk - sk-qwerty': u'sk-qwerty', u'Kviterussisk - by': u'by', u'Makedonsk - mk': u'mk', u'Nederlandsk - nl': u'nl', u'Portugisisk - pt-latin1': u'pt-latin1', u'Rumensk - ro': u'ro', u'Fransk (med euro) - fr-latin9': u'fr-latin9', u'Kroatisk - croat': u'croat', u'Latinamerikansk - la-latin1': u'la-latin1', u'Estisk - et': u'et', u'Tsjekkisk - cz-lat2': u'cz-lat2', u'Tyrkisk (Q-oppsett) - trqu': u'trqu', u'Brasiliansk (EUA-oppsett) - br-latin1': u'br-latin1', u'Serbisk (kyrillisk) - sr-cy': u'sr-cy', u'Hebraisk - hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Russisk - trfu': u'trfu', u'Engelsk (USA) - us': u'us', u'Polsk - pl': u'pl', u'Svensk - se-latin1': u'se-latin1', u'Finsk - fi-latin1': u'fi-latin1', u'Ukrainsk - ua': u'ua', u'Norsk - no-latin1': u'no-latin1', u'Engelsk (Storbritannia) - uk': u'uk', u'Dvorak - dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Fransk (Sveits) - fr_CH-latin1': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Russisk - ru': u'ru', u'Fransk (Canada) - cf': u'cf', u'Litauisk - lt': u'lt', u'Japansk (106 tastar) - jp106': u'jp106', u'Gresk - gr': u'gr', u'Belgisk - be2-latin1': u'be2-latin1', u'Tysk (Sveits) - sg-latin1': u'sg-latin1', u'Slovensk - slovene': u'slovene', u'Dansk - dk-latin1': u'dk-latin1', u'Brasiliansk (ABNT2-oppsett) - br-abnt2': u'br-abnt2', u'Bulgarsk - bg': u'bg', u'Latvisk - lv-latin4': u'lv-latin4', u'Tysk (utan daudtastar) - de-latin1-nodeadkeys': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Italiensk - it': u'it', u'Islandsk - is-latin1': u'is-latin1', u'Spansk - es': u'es', u'Ungarsk - hu': u'hu'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: ...

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu7: restart.
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: Loaded 23018 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.15-23-386.
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.15.
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.15-23-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d400 (usable)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009d400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ffb0000 (usable)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000007ffb0000 - 000000007ffc0000 (ACPI data)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000007ffc0000 - 000000007fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 1151MB HIGHMEM available.
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 524208
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 294832 pages, LIFO batch:31
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] DMI 2.3 present.
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f9a20
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x04000626 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7ffb0000
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x04000626 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7ffb0200
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x04000626 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7ffb0390
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 A M I OEMMCFG 0x04000626 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7ffb0400
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I AMI_OEM 0x04000626 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x7ffc0040
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 939M2 939M2184 0x00000184 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Jun 8 12:36:36 ubuntu kernel: [42946...

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

/bin/partman: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/01unsupported: *******************************************************
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: *******************************************************
parted_server: ======= Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=mapper=raid0-home_vol /dev/mapper/raid0-home_vol
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=mapper=raid0-home_vol
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=mapper=raid0-home_vol as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 2
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=mapper=raid0-programmer /dev/mapper/raid0-programmer
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=mapper=raid0-programmer
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=mapper=raid0-programmer as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 3
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=mapper=raid0-programmer_local /dev/mapper/raid0-programmer_local
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=mapper=raid0-programmer_local
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=mapper=raid0-programmer_local as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 4
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=mapper=raid0-var_vol /dev/mapper/raid0-var_vol
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=mapper=raid0-var_vol
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=mapper=raid0-var_vol as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 5
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=sda /dev/sda
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=sda
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=sda as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 6
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=sdb /dev/sdb
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open =dev=sdb
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: OUT: OK

parted_server: Note =dev=sdb as unchanged
parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 7
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN =dev=sdc /dev/sdc
...

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

Was asked to include this

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

XFS problem? See line 200+-.

....
Error reading inode 54166.
Error reading inode 54170.
dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)

/dev/mapper/raid0-home_vol1: No such file or directory

fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

The syslog.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thanks for your report. Due to some reliability problems with GRUB and XFS, you need to use a non-XFS root filesystem or create a non-XFS /boot filesystem. The fact that the partitioner doesn't warn you about this up-front is also bug 47848, and is fixed in dapper-updates.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

John is correct that this has been fixed, but incorrect about where it was fixed. Specifically, this is in fact gparted bug 50909.

John, please only mark bugs as duplicates that exactly match the patterns laid down by DebuggingUbiquity. I need to be spending time on things other than double-checking the actions of bug triagers, if possible. If you get creative then that makes things harder. :)