Fiest 7.01 installation disk partition util broke

[Octo777]

Fiest 7.01 Herd 4 installation disk partition util doesnt work for me when i have both of my Sata drives plugged in at the same time.

In edgy 6.01 it didnt have any problems detecting both drives(both 80 gig maxtor sata drives on my built in Nvidia raid controller), and showing the correct information and giving me the normal choices for partitioning.

In feist herd 4, the partitioner loads after a long delay, with corrupt information on the first disk(sata0), which has a windows install on it, as well as on (sata1) that has been formated with a linux file system. It never gives me the choice for manual or guided install. It starts giving me the choice to write the changes that have already ben made, which are jiberish lol.

If i unplug one of the drives, the partitioner seems to load normally in good time, giving me the option to use guided or manual install like i believe is the norm.

Sorry for the lack of technical information, Again, it worked ok in Edgy.
I havent tryed fiesty herd 1,2 or 3 yet so i cant know if it workes then.

[Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description doesn't yet have enough information.

Please include the following additional information, if you have not already done so (please pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team:
1. Please include the output of the command "uname -a" in your next response. It should be one, long line of text which includes the exact kernel version you're running, as well as the CPU architecture.
2. Please run the command "dmesg > dmesg.log" and attach the resulting file "dmesg.log" to this bug report.
3. Please run the command "lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log" and attach the resulting file "lspci-vvnn.log" to this bug report.

For your reference, the full description of procedures for kernel-related bug reports is available at [WWW] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelProblems . Thanks in advance!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This may well not be a kernel problem.

Could you please reproduce this problem and attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman to this bug, following the directions in http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs? Thanks in advance.

[larytet (larytet-48904418)]

I confirm the bug. I have only one disk (laptop VGN-S460 Sony VAIO) and paritioner failed.
There is only one partition on the disk - previous version of Ubuntu. I reinstalled Ubuntu on this laptop more than once and no problem with version 6. I failed to install Fiesty. It is tricky to get log file but I did send bug report via that GUI bug report thing .
I will try to copy the log here if you need the log, but it is going to be tricky. This is LiveCD which fails and I need WiFi connection up to get Internet connection and so on.

Basically LiveCD beta 7.04 is not usable on my laptop. In other words I think, that this is a high priority bug

[larytet (larytet-48904418)]

I ubuqiuty from command line (I have no idea how to copy the log from the bug report window) This is the crash

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ubiquity --desktop %k gtkui
Apr 6 18:12:01 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
Apr 6 18:12:01 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name, ^countrychooser/shortlist$
Apr 6 18:12:07 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
Apr 6 18:12:07 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Apr 6 18:12:15 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/console-setup/console-setup.postinst', 'configure']' for ubiquity.components.console_setup.ConsoleSetup
Apr 6 18:12:15 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^console-setup/layout, ^console-setup/variant
Apr 6 18:12:15 ubiquity: Setting keyboard layout: pc105 us []
Apr 6 18:12:27 ubiquity: Starting up '['log-output', '-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/bin/partman']' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
Apr 6 18:12:27 ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS, ^partman/confirm_new_label$, ^partman/free_space$, ^partman/active_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_partition_(size|type|place)$, ^partman-partitioning/confirm_resize$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman-target/choose_method$, ^partman-basicfilesystems/(fat_mountpoint|mountpoint|mountpoint_manual)$, ^partman/exception_handler$, ^partman/exception_handler_note$
Apr 6 18:12:27 ubiquity: Partman: update_partitions = None
Apr 6 18:12:27 ubiquity: Partman: update_partitions = None
Apr 6 18:12:27 ubiquity: Partman: update_partitions = None
Apr 6 18:12:28 ubiquity: Partman: update_partitions = None
Apr 6 18:12:28 ubiquity: Partman: state = [['', None, None]]
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1438, in watch_debconf_fd_helper
    return callback(source, debconf_condition)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 176, in process_input
    if not self.process_line():
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 110, in process_line
    return self.dbfilter.process_line()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/debconffilter.py", line 268, in process_line
    widget.subst(question, key, value)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/components/partman.py", line 228, in subst
    PartmanAuto.subst(self, question, key, value)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/components/partman_auto.py", line 99, in subst
    self.resize_min_size = self.parse_size(value)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/components/partman_auto.py", line 81, in parse_size
    (size_int, size_frac) = num.split('.', 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/li...

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