Comment 27 for bug 105623

I had Ubuntu 6.10 installed with my filesystems on LVM.
I wanted to wipe them out and perform a fresh install of Ubuntu 7.04 on the same partitions.

So I downloaded and burnt the alternate CD (for LVM support), and booted on it. The beginning was as usual. Then came the partitionning wizard, I gave the small lone ext3 partition for /boot and proceeded with the special LVM wizard.

It said "Keep current partition layout and configure LVM ?" so I pressed "Yes".

It said "1 existing volume group have been found. Please indicate whether you want to activate them. Activate existing volume groups?" so I pressed "Yes". Then a blue screen (of death?) appeared... and stayed... for a very long time... after two minutes I thought it was frozen, so I pressed CTRL+ALT+F2 to get a console, and checked the running processes, the last four were:

/bin/sh /bin/partman
parted_server
/bin/sh /lib/partman/choose_partition/30lvm/do_option log-output -t partman-lvm vgchange -a y
vgchange -a y

I had to wait for 12 minutes (time measured with my watch) before vgchange finally decided to go on. (Info: I have 3 logical volumes)

Then the installation started installing packages for a while, and suddenly turned red saying "Debootstrap warning. Warning: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times". After failing 5 times, it said "Installation step failed. The failing step is: Configure the package manager"

I could find this kind of errors in /var/log/syslog:

debootstrap: Errors were encoutered while processing: console-setup volumeid dmsetup udev ubuntu-minimal pcmciautils
...
apt-install: locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory

The CD-check tool says the CD is valid.
Should I fill a separate bug for the second part of my story, after vgchange ?
Has this vgchange bug been fixed in Gusty ? I could give it a try tomorrow.
Nicolas.