qtparted --installer crashes : displays none in installer

[Mascaret]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This is related to edgy 6.10 RC1 - architecture : 32 bits.

I have 3 disks (2 PATA, 1 SATA). Each is partionned with at least 4 partitions on each drive. They are attached to an nvidia nforce 3 250b MSI motherboard.

Qtparted works ok and reckognizes all drives/partition without flaw.
When ubiquity launches, it calls qtparted and does not seem to be able to read its output. So I cannot manually choose partitions.

Had the same trouble with dapper 6.06 - AMD64 build. Under Konsole, I killed the process, relaunched and it worked (although I had trouble chosing partitions because the screen could not hold the data : there is no button to scroll down/up and I forgot/didn't find the key combination). Anyway, it succeeded.

With edgy, there was no result terminating qtparted and rolling backwards the installation.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This sounds like a qtparted bug. Could you attach /var/log/syslog from the live session, which may have more information?

[Mascaret (devillers-jean-christoph)]

This is syslog :
Oct 23 18:14:37 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: Ubiquity 1.2.4
Oct 23 18:14:42 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: log-output -t ubiquity laptop-detect
Oct 23 18:14:43 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: ubiquity: locale.setlocale failed:
unsupported locale setting (LANG=fr_FR)
Oct 23 18:14:45 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: ubiquity: Starting
up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ub
iquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for
ubiquity.components.language.Language
Oct 23 18:14:45 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: ubiquity: Watching for question
patterns ^languagechooser/language-name, ^countrychoo
ser/shortlist$
Oct 23 18:14:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Locale has been preseeded to fr_FR
Oct 23 18:14:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set languagechooser/language-name
= 'French'
Oct 23 18:14:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set countrychooser/shortlist-fr
= 'FR'
Oct 23 18:14:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale
= 'fr_FR'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: LANGNAME=French
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info:
line=French;1;fr;FR;fr_FR.UTF-8;UTF-8;;kbd=lat9u-16(utf8)
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/language
= 'fr'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale
= 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set
debian-installer/fallbacklocale = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country
= 'FR'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set
debian-installer/consoledisplay = 'kbd=lat9u-16(utf8)'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debconf/language = 'fr'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set countrychooser/country-name
= 'France'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country
= 'FR'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale
= 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: debconffilter_done: Language (current:
Language)
Oct 23 18:14:56 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: Step_before = stepLanguage
Oct 23 18:14:58 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: Step_after = stepLocation
Oct 23 18:14:59 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: ubiquity: Starting
up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/share/
ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
Oct 23 18:14:59 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: ubiquity: Watching for question
patterns ^time/zone$
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Locale has been preseeded to
fr_FR.UTF-8
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set languagechooser/language-name
= 'French'
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set countrychooser/shortlist-fr
= 'FR'
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale
= 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debconf/language = ''
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set countrychooser/country-name
= 'France'
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country
= 'FR'
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale
= 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: debconffilter_done: Timezone (current:
Timezone)
Oct 23 18:15:01 ubuntu ubiquity[7049]: St...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (1.3.4) feisty; urgency=low

  * apt-install only attempts to install packages not already installed,
    making it more robust when packages on the target filesystem are broken
    (LP: #74241).
  * KDE frontend: Don't infinite-loop on EOF from qtparted (LP: #67565).
  * Make sure localechooser doesn't clobber the selected country if it
    differs from the default (LP: #68026).
  * Add a check-manifest tool to ensure that d-i/manifest is in sync with
    d-i/source/ on upload.
  * Upgrade to automake 1.10.
  * Configure and build the desktop, pixmaps, and po subdirectories even if
    UBIQUITY_NO_GTK is set.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.16ubuntu2,
    base-installer 1.70ubuntu1, localechooser 1.33ubuntu1, partman-auto
    62ubuntu2, partman-base 100ubuntu1.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:52:53 +0000