ubiquity hangs when existing LVM volumes are present

[Alexander List]

Similar to existing bugs, but against the latest raring daily build (20130211, x86_64 desktop).

Setup:

I have two identical hard drives in my brand new workstation. I would like to use Ubuntu Desktop.

Unfortunately, ubiquity currently has no support of automatically doing a proper SW RAID0 or RAID1 install on two harddisks. That would be really desirable, as it is a very common workstation setup.

Anyway, I did the partitioning, RAID setup and LVM setup manually.

After booting the Live CD, I installed mdadm in the live system, reassembled the RAIDs and activated my LVM volumes.

Here's the layout:

sda sda1 -> md0 sda2 -> md1
sdb sdb1 -> md0 sdb2 -> md1
md0: /boot
md1: Physical volume for LVM
LVM vg vg00, separate LVs for /root /usr /var /home /tmp /srv

Ubiquity will hang at "Preparing to install", with some partman processes hanging. It seems that partman wants to propose reusing the existing volumes. However, this is not visible in the GUI ...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.13.10 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-5.10-generic 3.8.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.330
Date: Mon Feb 11 17:59:10 2013
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130211)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This was reported against an alpha release some time ago. Are you able to reproduce this with 14.04 or 14.10?

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