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Ubuntu Herd 2 - i386 Desktop CD - Installation Error

Bug #80205 reported by ahaslam on 2007-01-17

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Test case type: Ubuntu Feisty X86, Desktop CD. Installation from the LiveCD.

Image ID: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-2/feisty-desktop-i386.iso

Dowloaded and burned: feisty-desktop-i386.iso

Date of testing: 16.jan.2007

Md5sum confirmed: Yes, also verified disc contents from the boot screen.

Pass/Fail: Fail.
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The i386 herd 2 iso works well as a live cd, but I can't install from it. I launch the installer & successfully go through the first 4 steps, but it crashes & freezes my laptop on the transition to step 5.

I posted extra details on the forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2021641&postcount=1

Tony.

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Roel Huybrechts (rulus) wrote on 2007-01-17:

Hi, thanks for your bug report. I changed the package name to 'ubiquity'.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2007-01-18:

Could you try pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Alt-F7 to switch away from X and back? If that lets you proceed, then it's a known bug that I've since fixed.

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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ahaslam (anthonyhaslam) wrote on 2007-01-18:

When it crashes, everything freezes - nothing responds, it's totally locked up.

If you know of any way for me to obtain extra info please let me know & I'll gladly try it again.

Tony.

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Bubba Siggler (bud3) wrote on 2007-01-19:

Installer crashed Edit (103.5 KiB, text/html)

The same things happened to me. Execpt it did not lockup an it gave me a logs file I will attach if it will help. ubiquity185

Bubba

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UBfusion (ubfusion) wrote on 2007-01-27:

I would suggest looking at the changes between today's 20070127 and yesterday's builds. This bug was fixed for all this week's daily builds and reappeared just today.

As I have commented in Launchpad some days ago, the disk is partitioned correctly but feisty cannot format the partitions. The pc freezes at 100% cpu

I am testing feisty in vmware, but I expect the same behaviour in all x86 and amd64 desktop builds of today (kubuntu, xubuntu, dvd) etc. The alternate might be ok (but only when installing on new hard disk, the partitioner still can't handle existing partitions).

Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena) on 2007-02-23

Changed in ubiquity:
assignee:	nobody → kamion

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Evan (ev) wrote on 2008-06-04:

ahaslam,

Are you able to reproduce this bug in the latest release of Ubuntu, 8.04?

Thanks!

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-09-14:

If it's a complete lock-up, then that's a kernel bug; reassigning over there, although I'm not sure how far we'll be able to get with it. (Bubba, your problem was something else, and I think we fixed it some time back.)

Is this reproducible with Ubuntu 8.04.1?

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	Incomplete → New
Changed in linux:
assignee:	kamion → nobody

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Luke Faraone (lfaraone) wrote on 2008-09-27:

Hey,

I assume this is working for you in hardy?

Changed in linux:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote on 2009-01-10:

*This is an automated response*

This bug report is being closed because we received no response to the previous request for information. Please reopen this if it is still an issue in the actively developed pre-release of Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty . To reopen the bug report simply change the Status of the "linux" task back to "New".