installer crashed

[Anthony David]

Selected all xfs filesystems to install Edgy. The installer (incorrectly) complained that /boot could not be xfs.
changed it to ext3 and then must have redone my partitions? and ended with the default ext3. Didn't notice until mkfs was underway. After install, selected LiveCD instead of reboot and deleted/added partitions to be xfs (except the one that was to become /boot).

Got to prepare mount pont and installer failed with

Traceback (most recent call last)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py",line 710, in on_next_clicked
gtk.main_quit()
RuntimeError: called outside of mainloop

Looks like it might be a pbkac :)

/var/log/installer/syslog:

..

Error reading inode 148461.
Error reading inode 148462.
Error reading inode 148840.
Error reading inode 148841.
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.
Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:50:50 INFO gparted replied: 0 OK
Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:50:51 INFO switched to page stepPartMountpoints
Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:50:51 INFO Step_after = stepPartMountpoints
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 710, in on_next_clicked
    gtk.main_quit()
RuntimeError: called outside of a mainloop

[Anthony David (adavid-adavid)]

Interesting tidbit in in messages:

Oct 7 13:40:09 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Oct 7 13:40:09 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
Oct 7 13:40:10 ubuntu grub-installer: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Oct 7 13:40:14 ubuntu grub-installer: Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation
Oct 7 13:40:14 ubuntu grub-installer: fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is harmless and
Oct 7 13:40:14 ubuntu grub-installer: can be ignored.
Oct 7 13:40:15 ubuntu grub-installer: xfs_freeze: specified file ["/boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem
Oct 7 13:40:15 ubuntu grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.:

My inital comment was inspired by fact I have been running OpenSuSE 10.1 with xfs /boot on another laptop for 3 months now. currently
2.6.16.21-0.13 SuSE kernel

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

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