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installer crashed

Bug #49114 reported by Schplurtz le déboulonné on 2006-06-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47848: should warn at partitioning stage if /boot is on XFS. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello

I tried to install dapper drake on a laptop. Everything works fine until
the instaler tries to guess where to write the boot manager.

It then crahses and a dialog box asks me to file a bug report. Here it is.

I include the partition table in case it may be useful :

/dev/sda1 1 14 112423+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 15 1319 10482412+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1320 7296 48010252+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1320 1581 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1582 2600 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2601 7296 37720588+ 83 Linux

sda6 / xfs
sda7 /home ext3

I can see nothing allowing to attach a file (using https://launchpad...).
I will add them afterward.

Christophe

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Schplurtz le déboulonné (schplurtz) wrote on 2006-06-09: dump of the error window

dump of the error window Edit (46.5 KiB, image/png)

This window appeared when the installer crashed

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Schplurtz le déboulonné (schplurtz) wrote on 2006-06-09: /var/log/installer/syslog

/var/log/installer/syslog Edit (20.8 KiB, text/plain)

/var/log/installer/syslog as asked by the application

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Schplurtz le déboulonné (schplurtz) wrote on 2006-06-09: /var/log/syslog

/var/log/syslog Edit (75.7 KiB, text/plain)

/var/log/syslog as asked by the application

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Schplurtz le déboulonné (schplurtz) wrote on 2006-06-09: /var/log/partman

/var/log/partman Edit (119.5 KiB, text/plain)

/var/log/partman

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Schplurtz le déboulonné (schplurtz) wrote on 2006-06-09: Whqt I did to complete the installation

Whqt I did to complete the installation Edit (161 bytes, text/plain)

This is here in case someone is sent there by google.

Yes I did install LILO on /dev/sda3.
Many people think that one cannot install on an extended partition. It's
possible. It's explained in lilo DOC. And I've been doing it for years.

Christophe.

Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) on 2006-08-09

Changed in ubiquity:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-08-23:

Thanks for your report. Due to some reliability problems with GRUB and XFS, you need to use a non-XFS root filesystem or create a non-XFS /boot filesystem. The fact that the partitioner doesn't warn you about this up-front is also bug 47848, and is fixed in dapper-updates.