Mint KDE 14 (based on Kubuntu 12.10) -- ubiquity installer / partman crash on after configuring second partition

[daemacles]

Reproducible : Yes
Frequency : Always
Severity : Unable to install OS is a bit of a show stopper

When I try to install Linux Mint KDE 14 RC from the live CD using ubiquity, ubiquity ALWAYS crashes without any error messages during manual partition setup. After a little bit of digging, this may be due to a problem in partman, but I'm no expert on the ubiquity system.

My hard drive has a combination of primary and logical partitions. Under Mint 13 I created:

/dev/sda1 -- FAT32, primary, pre-installed Dell utility 100MB
/dev/sda2 -- EXT2, primary, mounted on /boot 512MB
free space
/dev/sda5 -- swap, logical 10GB
/dev/sda6 -- EXT4, logical, mounted on /home 300GB
/dev/sda7 -- EXT4, logical, mounted on / 80GB
free space

Ubiquity will ALWAYS crash during DISK SETUP under MANUAL mode when I try to select more than two partitions. I can't tell if it has a problem mixing logical with primary partitions or what.

[Hendy Irawan (ceefour)]

Got exactly the same issue as reporter. Always crash after configuring the second partition.

Here's what dmesg says:

[ 117.158584] Btrfs loaded
[ 117.260410] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
[ 117.467453] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
[ 195.450074] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 195.671688] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 195.887912] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 197.066519] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 197.255049] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 197.446349] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 202.890370] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 203.045485] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 203.261676] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 204.315092] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 204.478603] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 204.678215] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 206.065052] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 206.253213] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 206.469392] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 207.556090] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 207.727915] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 207.902723] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 208.417374] NTFS driver 2.1.30 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[ 208.461935] QNX4 filesystem 0.2.3 registered.
[ 341.748022] ubiquity[4317]: segfault at 120 ip 000000000047dc99 sp 00007fff76f4f1d0 error 6 in python2.7[400000+21f000]
^^^^ crash here.

Another try:

[ 439.929804] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 440.109507] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 440.283850] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 441.370906] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 441.525866] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 441.708592] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 447.011961] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 447.183264] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 447.374414] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 448.520302] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 448.683140] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 448.857499] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:...

[Hendy Irawan (ceefour)]

*Probably* related to: bug #1038522, bug #990464, bug #1055967

[Hendy Irawan (ceefour)]

Still happens on linuxmint KDE 14 Final.

My system:

Linux mint 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Hendy Irawan (ceefour)]

Turning off desktop effects *might* make it work:
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2271&cpage=2#comment-86605

Unfortunately, I am already installing it (with just one partition, will set up the rest later via /etc/fstab manually) so I can't test if the workaround actually works...