kubuntu installer crashed on powerbook g4 PPC

[Blake]

Powerbook G4, PPC.

Using 5GB partition for ubuntu, 55gb for OSX.

Attempting to install a dual boot using yaboot, however it gave an error which roughly said, "NewWorld boot partition not detected"

Crash message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 310, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 750, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1130, in mountpoints_to_summary
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 541, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s; see "
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/syslog

Logs are attached below.

[Blake (blake-sys-techs)]

Pardon for the long post, there was no attachment box on the initial report screen :-/

One thing I forgot to mention, hda3 and hda5 were partitioned using OSX's installer (Disk Utility), I selected "Unix filesystem" instead of HFS+ hoping that it meant ext2 or ext3 by "Unix filesystem". Wishful thinking, I suppose. But regardless, an odd partition type shouldn't cause the installer to crash.

This is repeatable from my end, if you'd like to log and and see it for yourself let me know.

Thanks once again! Keep up the great work.

[Blake (blake-sys-techs)]

One last amendment, here's what my partitions look like to fdisk:

root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l
/dev/hda
        # type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @ 64 ( 8.5M) Unknown
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Apple_UFS_Untitled_1 12335240 @ 17472 ( 5.9G) Linux native
/dev/hda4 Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @ 12352712 ( 8.5M) Unknown
/dev/hda5 Apple_UFS Apple_UFS_Untitled_2 104840104 @ 12370120 ( 50.0G) Unknown
/dev/hda6 Apple_Free Extra 16 @ 117210224 ( 8.0k) Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

/dev/hdc
        # type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple 2 @ 1 ( 1.0k) Partition map
/dev/hdc2 Apple_HFS Kubuntu 6.06.1 ppc 1425368 @ 16 (696.0M) HFS

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=1425384
DeviceType=0x1, DeviceId=0x1

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Thank you for reporting this. I apologize than no one has gotten back to you about this yet.
I attached the two logs in comments to make this page easier to read.
Do you still experience this crash?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!