crash while unable to setup partition for installation

[Jean-Pierre Riviere]

I have my IDE hard drive already set up for linux, with a swap partition, two /boot partition (one for fedora, one which was intented for ubuntu) and one for LVM, which has /home, two / and one /tmp. All partitions are primary partition.

As I was trying to install ubuntu, I choosed the manual partitionning. The system began scanning, with a ghosted image of a partition tool. But the ghost disappeared, leaving me without any possibility to say where to put what. I can't install ubuntu!

However the "continue" button was available. So I press it, and this broke the installe (this is where it is different from bug 40542, and also that until then the installer was not crashed yet).

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 266, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 738, in process_step
    self.gparted_to_mountpoints()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 815, in gparted_to_mountpoints
    print >>self.gparted_subp.stdin, "apply"
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stdin'

[Jean-Pierre Riviere (meddurenos)]

I have saved /var/log/installer/syslog , /var/log/syslog
and /var/log/partman in case it would serve.
(it seems I could not join them with the bug report)

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Thanks for the bug report. Can you please attach those files, using the `Add Attachment' link to the left?

[Jean-Pierre Riviere (meddurenos)]

as requested by Williams Grant.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is partly a duplicate of bug 50909 (that gparted crashes) and partly of bug 48856 (that ubiquity fails to deal with that crash). It should be fixed in the first Dapper point release.