Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Partitioning not available during installation

Bug #60787 reported by Albert on 2006-09-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47194: qtparted seems to crash on some setups; deal with this better?. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Hi,

when I use the GUI installer and choose to manually create partitions on step five the installer crashes without showing a partition table or something similar.

Can I somehow avoid the GUI tool and do a text based installer? (Kubuntu 6.06 LTS for PC)

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 731, in process_step
    self.gparted_to_mountpoints()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 804, in gparted_to_mountpoints
    print >>self.qtparted_subp.stdin, "apply"
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stdin'

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote on 2006-09-20:

Thanks for your report, which is also bug 47194. The program used for advanced partitioning, qtparted, appears to have crashed. The version of the installer present in Kubuntu 6.06.1 deals with this more gracefully. If you can reproduce the qtparted crash by running it directly from K Menu -> System, then please file a separate bug against qtparted.