Ubiquity crashes when scanning existing hard drive partitions

[Gordo]

I downloaded and tried to install the Fiesty Beta last night. I booted the live CD and everything looked great. I started the installer then chose manual partitioning. The installer started to scan my hard drive (I am assuming looking for existing partitions) until it gets to about 50% then crashes. I know Ubiquity crashed as the little crash icon shows up in the top bar and tells me that Ubiquity has crashed. I have tried this three times and even tried re-burning the ISO with the exact same results every time.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Since this issue is reproducable for you it would be very helpful if you could add the crash report that should should be in '/var/crash/'. Thanks in advance.

[Gordo (gordo)]

Brian,

Thanks, I will get this info for you as soon as I get home from work
tonight.

Best Regards,
Gord

On 3/27/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Since this issue is reproducable for you it would be very
> helpful if you could add the crash report that should should be in
> '/var/crash/'. Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Sourcepackagename: None => ubiquity
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> Ubiquity crashes when scanning existing hard drive partitions
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/97034
>

[Gordo (gordo)]

Brian,

Attached is the crash report as requested.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Is there any reason you didn't use the crash icon to report this bug? Reports produced that way are generally much quicker and easier for me to deal with, and I've been trying to work out why relatively few people are using it.

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 95400, and is fixed in more recent daily builds.

[mherweg (m-herweg)]

Colin Watson schrieb:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 95400 ***
>
> Is there any reason you didn't use the crash icon to report this bug?

I can't remember exactly.
I think a crash message appeared and i clicked "submit"

maybe it failed because of the other bug I filed:
I was not able to set up a static IP , router, DNS with the KDE GUI
so i did it in console later .

[Gordo (gordo)]

Brian,

Thanks for the information. I was unaware that this was already posted as a bug. Before I posted this bug, I did a search for Ubiquity and no bugs came up.

The reason I never used the crash icon. Well I did click the crash icon and completely missed the report button. I think it is probably due to seeing that crash dialog in Windows all the time and becoming accustomed to seeing it and ignoring it.

Now that I know that you developers actually get this information and appreciate it, I will definitely start to use it.

I am thinking a suggestion of making the "report" button red or something that will catch a person's eye might be good?

I am glad to hear that this problem has been fixed in a recent build but how can I test this beta without being able to install? Any idea when a new beta ISO will be released?

Thanks again,
Gord

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

When running the Live CD you could update the installer, ubiquity, via 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get upgrade'. Alternatively, you could try a daily CD build from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ however the current i386 desktop CD seems to be oversized. I hope that helps.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

'sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ubiquity' would probably be the least memory-intensive approach.

I don't mind you not searching for the bug in advance - in fact, installer bugs can be hard enough to tell apart that I prefer getting duplicates over the risk of not hearing about a bug at all.

[jtholmes (jtholmes)]

Colin
I am not familiar with the crash Icon.
I want to learn as much as I can about the
ISO testing as I plan to continue along that
path.
Please provide the page link explaining where that
Icon is and I will use it in the future.
Whew! I have a lot to learn.

jt

Colin Watson wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 95400 ***
>
> Is there any reason you didn't use the crash icon to report this bug?
> Reports produced that way are generally much quicker and easier for me
> to deal with, and I've been trying to work out why relatively few people
> are using it.
>
> Thanks for your report. This is also bug 95400, and is fixed in more
> recent daily builds.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 95400
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