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ubiquity package

Installer Crashed with xfs root partition

Bug #55140 reported by robo_mojo on 2006-08-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47848: should warn at partitioning stage if /boot is on XFS. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Attempting to install Kubuntu 6.06 LTS onto the hard disk.

On a 6 GB disk, I created a 5.7 GB xfs partition for "/", and the remainder of the space was for swap.

After all the files are copied, during the "Configuring boot loader..." step, it crashes (at 96%).

Installing with auto partitioning (which uses ext3 instead of xfs) works normally.

Here is the crash log:

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/kde-ui.py", line 311, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 734, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1047, in mountpoints_to_summary
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 524, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s; see "
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/syslog

See original description

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robo_mojo (e-jaysonking) wrote on 2006-08-04:

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robo_mojo (e-jaysonking) wrote on 2006-08-04:

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robo_mojo (e-jaysonking) wrote on 2006-08-04:

contents of /var/log/partman Edit (54.1 KiB, text/plain)

robo_mojo (e-jaysonking) on 2006-08-04

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-08-04:

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.