Ubiquity gets stuck when there is an unformatted/unrecognized partition
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Ubiquity will do nothing when you click forward on the second screen (the screen where it checks if you have a power supply, internet connection, etc) if you have an unformatted partition. It gives no error but just sits there, forever. I get this error running the daily image from 3/2/2011.
To reproduce:
Make a partition on your hard drive that is unformatted (has no filesystem). The one I had was a logical partition, but I doubt that matters.
Start ubiquity and try to do a normal install. You will get stuck on the page where it checks to see if you have an Internet connection, etc. Specifically, if you press forward, nothing happens, and the cursor looks busy.
Close Ubiquity.
Format the unformatted partition.
Open Ubiquity and try to get past where you were stuck before.
Please note:There is more debugging information in the duplicate bug #723990 in case you need it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubiquity 2.5.22 [modified: lib/partman/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 2 17:19:57 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
summary: |
- Ubiquity gets stuck when there is an unformatted partition + Ubiquity gets stuck when there is an unformatted/unrecognized partition |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-11.04-beta-1 |
I removed all unformatted partitions and still experienced this issue, however one of my hard drives has a TrueCrypt partition which shows up as a partition with an Unknown file system in GParted so I assume it would cause the same problem as an unformatted partition.