Xubuntu installer crashed between "Manual Paritioning" and "Prepare mount points"

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Using the Xubuntu 6.10 Desktop Live CD, I started the live cd in "safe graphics mode" because it couldn't detect the screen in the default boot. My partitions were as follows:

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

   8 0 78125000 sda
   8 1 56196 sda1
   8 2 74806672 sda2
   8 3 3253162 sda3
   8 16 3999743 sdb
   8 17 40131 sdb1
   8 18 3951990 sdb2
   7 0 631656 loop0
 253 0 56196 dm-0
 253 1 74806672 dm-1
 253 2 3253162 dm-2
 253 3 40131 dm-3
 253 4 3951990 dm-4

I chose manual partitioning during the install. I removed sda3 (fat16 or 32) and resized sda2 (ntfs) to be 40000MB. Then I added an extended parition with 1024MB linux-swap, 17607MB ext3, and 17607MB free (unallocated).

After clicking next, the installer seemed to complete the desired operation. When the "prepare mount points" screen came up, I got the following error:

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 696, in on_next_clicked
    gtk.main_quit()
RuntimeError: called outside of a mainloop

[Tony Abou-Assaleh (taa)]

/var/log/installer/syslog as request by the "Installer Crashed" message.

[Tony Abou-Assaleh (taa)]

/var/log/syslog as requested by the "Installer crashed" message.

[Tony Abou-Assaleh (taa)]

/var/log/partman as requested by the "Installer crashed" message.

[Tony Abou-Assaleh (taa)]

Examining the paritions, it looks like the installer did apply changes to the partition table. Partitions after the "Installer crashed" message:

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

   8 0 78125000 sda
   8 1 56196 sda1
   8 2 40957717 sda2
   8 5 1052226 sda5
   8 6 18024898 sda6
   8 16 3999743 sdb
   8 17 40131 sdb1
   8 18 3951990 sdb2
   7 0 631656 loop0
 253 0 56196 dm-0
 253 1 74806672 dm-1
 253 2 3253162 dm-2
 253 3 40131 dm-3
 253 4 3951990 dm-4

[Tony Abou-Assaleh (taa)]

Correction: The installer did not format the extended partitions (linux-swap and ext3) because when I ran the installer again, these two paritions were there, but were shown as unknown.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 54163, and is fixed in Edgy.