ubi-partman failed error on partitions change

[Sebastien Bacher]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Using the lucid 20100224 iso on a mini 10v with 16G ssd drive:
* boot in installing only mode under a french locale (not sure if those settings are revelant)
* select manual partitionning

the current partition table has a 24meg fat16 partition which seems to be a special dell one and an ubuntu 8.04.1 factory install

* delete the ubuntu partition
* create 2 new partitions, one for lucid and a swap one
* click on next

a dialog is displayed saying that ubi-partman failed with exit code 141

The bug seems similar to bug #525081

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 24 14:23:14 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224)
Package: ubiquity 2.1.25
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.27

---------------
ubiquity (2.1.27) lucid; urgency=low

  * Check whether choose_partition should be thawed when going back from
    scanning a non-resizable partition (LP: #527057).
  * devkit-disks was renamed to udisks; try to inhibit that first.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:08:00 +0000

[Juan Orti Alcaine (juan.orti)]

I'm experiencig this error making manual partitioning and creating /dev/sdb3 (primary partition, ext4, mount point / )

I'm using the ISO of Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 3 AMD64

[vmc (vmclark)]

I zsync'ed todays live-dail Marth10th, using manual method.

Tried several devices, USB CDROM, using Startup Disk Creator & Unetbootin.
Then tried booting to live Ubuntu. and install from there. Everything I tried, it errored :

"ubi-partman failed exit code 141"

[vmc (vmclark)]

Launchpad Janitor wrote on 2010-02-24: "This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.1.27"

I rechecked todays live-daily, and it Ubiquity version is 2.1.33

Does that mean if I downgrade to 2.1.27 it will work ?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Not necessarily, but it does mean you should file a new bug report. There are many causes for this particular error, and the only way for the developers to know if it is the same is by examining your logs.

please start the installer with 'ubiquity -d' from a terminal window, and reproduce this problem. Once you've done that, please attach /var/log/syslog, /var/log/partman, and /var/log/installer/debug to the new bug report. It's important that you attach all those files.

[vmc (vmclark)]

My bad, I thought I was commenting bug #535630. Sorry.

[Mélodie (meets)]

Hi,

Where does it have to be reported at the end ? Who marked here as a duplicate of the one I started ? Well I had not seen anything such when I started but number #525081. So I don't see any answers anymore at the number #525081, please appologize if I'm wrong, I posted this theses days:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/525081/comments/16

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Joyce: this bug has been fixed by the developers. Bug 525081 was marked a duplicate of this bug, which is why there are no comments there. If you are still experiencing this issue using the most current cd image, which is available at http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If you experience this issue with the current cd, you should file a new bug report.

[Mélodie (meets)]

> If you experience this issue with the current cd, you should file a new bug report.

Allright, I'll download today's version as soon as another download is finished. I have a hard time finding out where to start to search for/and fill in a bug report for another Ubuntu version. (Installing all bug-buddy's because "ubuntu-bug" command does not work in 9.10 UNR ! :red:)

Thanks for the tip.

[Legolas (aka-wood-elf)]

I have a similar bag in xubuntu 10.10 when I try install it =( AMD Duron, 256 RAM

[Per Kongstad (p-kongstad)]

This is still happening with daily version dated 2011.03.13.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Please file a new bug report and include the following logs. This will allow the developers to examine your logs and determine how to resolve this issue.

please start the installer with 'ubiquity -d' from a terminal window, and reproduce this problem. Once you've done that, please attach /var/log/syslog, /var/log/partman, and /var/log/installer/debug to the new bug report. It's important that you attach all those files.