ubiquity crashed with KeyError in get_current_disk_partman_id()

[Wouter van der Graaf]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat 64 bit on Sony Vaio Z (VPCZ13) via live cd. This possibly has to do with the default RAID 0 configuration of two combined 64 GB SSD hard disks, with Windows 7 pre-installed.

Checked with GParted and it doesn't recognize the RAID disk. It detects multiple drives sda, sdb and sdc. In Disk Utility it does detect a Mobile 82801 SATA RAID Controller with both disks and DVD underneath, and below Peripheral Devices there are 4 drives, the actual partitions as seen in Windows admin tool.

Maybe I need to remove RAID and reinstall Windows 7 on one drive, Ubuntu on the other. As there is no Windows installation disc with my new laptop, I hope that a shrink of the Windows partition (with Windows admin tools) can make it fit in one drive and won't break when I remove RAID 0.

I will try the alternate install CD first, before destroying my filesystem.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubiquity 2.4.8 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 8 02:30:14 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/5297/environ'
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with KeyError in get_current_disk_partman_id()
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[Wouter van der Graaf (wouter-dynora)]

In Windows admin tool I managed to shrink the Windows partition and create 2 new raw partitions for Linux and swap. Tried installation of Ubuntu live cd again and didn't get any error. Ubuntu is now installed.

[Johnsandman (info-tvnr)]

How can i get removed raid on that particular harddisc windows is installed on a seperate harddisk and linux cant :|

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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