EDGY Installer fails at manual partition

[George Farris]

Ran the live cd knot-3 and the installer ran once through the partitioning and I chose manual install. Had to shutdown and re-run the installer later, when I got to the manual partition the installer hangs. Just before choosing manual it pops up a window saying "resize not possible on the partition".

Click the checkbutton on manual partition, then click Forward and she hangs with a spinning mouse pointer. Cancelling the install is possible.

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

This is the exact description of my problem, but I will provide more information:

my layout is as follows:

Disk /dev/hda: 79.6 GB, 79611027968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9678 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 7295 58597056 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9313 9678 2939895 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 7296 9312 16201552+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 9314 9678 2931862+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

I noticed while searching the logs, that in /var/log/partman, I see a constant action, as if it is reloading constantly. It says something like pass 1668 which gets bigger each reload. If you need more information, please ask.

[allartk (allartk)]

Same problem here. Both on knot 2 and knot 3.

My layout is:
hda1 bootable NTFS 15726,75
hda5 swap 477,07
hda6 linux ext3 5387,56
hda7 linux ext2 94450,90
hda3 reiserFS 6358,15
hda4 swap 534,65

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 58500, and is fixed in the Edgy beta release.