Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Attempt to create new partitions silently fails in manual partitioning

Bug #507012 reported by Dave Martin on 2010-01-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #506585: [Lucid Xubuntu] Manual partitioning using Desktop image can not be done. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned	Ubuntu lucid-alpha-3
	Lucid	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned	Ubuntu lucid-alpha-3

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

See the attached window dump.

If I highlight "free space" under /dev/mmcblk1, then click Add... set a size, type and mount point, then click OK, no new partition appears in the list. This can be repeated indefinitely with no effect. There seems to be no way to force creation of the new partition.

Ubuntu lucid development branch
ubiquity 2.1.9
Architecture: armel

Observed in daily-live image http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/ports/daily-live/20100112.2/lucid-desktop-armel+imx51.img

In combination with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/506971, I can't do manual partitioning at all, even by pre-partitioning the device with fdisk.

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Dave Martin (dave-martin-arm) wrote on 2010-01-13:

Manual partitioning window Edit (33.6 KiB, image/x-xwindowdump)

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Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote on 2010-01-13:

Also observed on 20100113

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) on 2010-01-13

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added: iso-testing

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Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote on 2010-01-13:

syslog Edit (66.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote on 2010-01-13:

partman Edit (129.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote on 2010-01-13:

debug Edit (323 bytes, text/plain)

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2010-01-14:

cf. bug #506585, which is probably related.

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2010-01-14

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Lucid):
milestone:	none → lucid-alpha-3

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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote on 2010-01-15:

I believe you will find that there are also problems with "parted" and/or "libparted" in Lucid.

During iso testing I encountered a problem and a combination of Xorg and hardware problems kept me from following through on my testing.

But even on my installed Lucid I was having trouble with Gparted resizing, deleting, etc.

Unfortunately I will not be able to follow up on this for several days. (Shopping and awaiting new hardware)

Please have someone do some basic testing with parted/Gparted both from the Live CD and their installed Lucid.

The problem(s) are obvious.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2010-01-19:

This appears to be the same as bug 506585, so I'm marking it as a duplicate.

Erick, problems with gparted are not related to this bug. I'd appreciate it if you could file specific details of the problems you're having, *as a new bug report*; so far my testing has not uncovered systemic problems with libparted, so we'll need details from you.