crash after partitioning

[mrxoliver]

The live CD installer formatted the disks and assigned mount points then just disappeared. (Using SATA2 drive (sda2))

[Francois-Denis Gonthier (fdgonthier)]

What disappeared exactly? We will need more information on your problem. Specifically what kind of disk it is, the SATA chipset or motherboard model.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please attach /var/log/installer/espresso to this bug.

[mrxoliver (mrxoliver)]

The bar telling me that it was formatting the disk got to 100%, then the progress box just disappeared, leaving me with a lovely view of the desktop.

The Hard Drive is a Seagate ST380817AS Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM SATA/150 with an 8MB Cache.

The motherboard is an ASRock (K8NF4G-SATA2) Socket 754 nVidia GeForce 6100 Chipset/nVidia nForce 410 MCP Chipset.

(/var/log/installer/expresso is on its way)

Thanks for the quick responses.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Can I remind you about the log file? You said ten days ago that it was on its way, but I haven't seen it yet. Thanks.

[mrxoliver (mrxoliver)]

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:47 INFO Step_before = stepWelcome
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:47 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:47 INFO Step_after = stepLanguage
locale-gen is /usr/sbin/locale-gen
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:51 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:51 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:51 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:57 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:57 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:30:57 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
sh: kbd-chooser-apply: command not found
sh: kbd-chooser-apply: command not found
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:04 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:04 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:04 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ON STATE: 1
grep: /target/etc/passwd: No such file or directory
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:26 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:26 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:26 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:32 INFO switched to page stepPartAuto
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:36 INFO Step_before = stepPartAuto
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:36 INFO gparted_loop()
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:36 INFO switched to page stepPartAdvanced
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:31:36 INFO Step_after = stepPartAdvanced
dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc has been opened read-only.
Error: Unable to open /dev/hdc - unrecognised disk label.
dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc has been opened read-only.
Error: Unable to open /dev/hdc - unrecognised disk label.
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:32:30 INFO Step_before = stepPartAdvanced
dumpe2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc has been opened read-only.
Error: Unable to open /dev/hdc - unrecognised disk label.
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:32:40 INFO switched to page stepPartMountpoints
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:32:40 INFO Step_after = stepPartMountpoints
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:32:48 INFO Step_before = stepPartMountpoints
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/partman': File exists
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:32:53 INFO switched to page stepReady
swapon: /dev/sda3: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/sda3: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/sda3: Device or resource bu...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Any chance you could reproduce this with 'ESPRESSO_DEBUG=1 sudo espresso', and get the log? Sorry, I should have asked for that before. Make sure to use a throwaway password, as in debug mode the password will appear in the log file.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Alternatively, please try with the Dapper Beta 2 release. That should either work (we can hope ...) or else give you a useful traceback of the crash, which you can then paste into this bug report.

[Corey Woodworth (coreywoodworth)]

This appears to be a duplicate of <a href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/40594">40594</a>

[Corey Woodworth (coreywoodworth)]

Sorry about the last comment:

Could be a duplicate of Bug #40594

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It could be, but without a debug log or a traceback in either case I cannot tell.

[Henk Koster (h-a-j-koster)]

Has the log been forwarded in the meantime? Just to be sure, I'm attaching my /var/log/installer/syslog (not espresso!) to this bug.

My desired setup:

hda3 64MB ext2 /boot
hda5 1GB swap
hda6 13GB jfs /

These partitions already made with Knoppix, I'm asking Ubuntu installer to reformat them. The partitioner/installer then seems to do this, then suddenly quits.

[Henk Koster (h-a-j-koster)]

See my previous post...

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Henk, your problem is bug 39734, and should be fixed in Flight CD 7.

It seems likely to me that this bug is the same basic problem, so I'll mark it as a duplicate. mrxoliver, if you can still reproduce this crash, please reopen this bug. Anyone else, please file a new bug if you experience similar symptoms rather than reopening this one.

[Henk Koster (h-a-j-koster)]

It seems there's more to it. I've just tried to install Flight-7 with the install-CD, but it too choked on my preferred partitioning. It gave "warning messages" about the existing NTFS (Windows XP) partition not having parameters to Windows' liking (I had made that partition with PartitionMagic). To top it off, the computer froze solid while configuring xserver-xorg...

I've now used installed Dapper succesfully from Beta2 plus updates, letting the installer wipe the whole disk and install a single ext3 root partition and a 512MB swap partition. Beats me how I can get either Ubuntu installer to give me what I want: small ext /boot, a jfs root partition, and a 1GB swap partition.

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