Ubiquity's Installation Type Window Totally Unresponsive

[SlugiusRex]

Attempting to install 11.10 on a completely new unformatted disk

Update manager completely mangled my previous 11.04 desktop and corrupted GRUB ~ so I deleted all the disk volumes, and am attempting to install fro scratch.

The "trial" works great, and I am able to get as far as the "Installation Type" window. However, at that point, none of the buttons are responsive; and 'Install Now' reports 'No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu'.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Wed Oct 19 23:08:45 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

Here's an image of the Disk Utility program that shows the state of the disk onto which I am attempting to install Ubuntu 11.10.

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

The issue is related to the fact that the drive is descried as "Raid Component" in the Disk Utility Image (see comment #2).

I was able to use disk utility to remove this by formatting the drive as empty ~ and was able to continue on with the installation. So I am now happy. However I am very displeased with the installation process. I believe that this drive being flagged as "Raid Component" is what caused the original 11.04 to 11.10 system upgrade to fail; and is also responsible for the USB/DVD installation process to break.

All of the documentation I found on-line says that I should have first seen a Ubiquity screen that displays some nice graphics offering the "Install Alongside / Erase Disk / Something Else" options. But this never happed. Instead Ubiquity went straight to the partition editor screen ~ but that screen was missing the nicely colored partition representation at the top of the screen. Also, none of the buttons worked ~ and the only option was to abandon the installation using quit.

The cause of the problem dates back to my initial installation of Jaunty/Karmic on this machine. At that time the default Windows installation was ditched, and Ubuntu was successfully installed using the pre-Ubiquity installer/partitioner. However, during all the subsequent Karmic -> Lucid -> Natty conversions the problem never surfaced.

Ubiquity should provide a more more elegant for detecting that the partitioner cannot proceed and should give a more useful approach to continuing the installation instead of just forcing the Quit.

[Billy Hand (billythethird)]

I have the same problem and formatting my disk to empty is not an option. I'm not sure I can use Ubuntu if a blocking bug can go this long without being addressed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

Yes, it was a serious problem. Does/did the disk originally have Windows installed with the "Raid Component" option selcted (e.i. from Acer ). If so I don't think that there is a work around that doesn't involve wiping the whole thing?

Ubiquity should provide a more more elegant for detecting that the partitioner cannot proceed and should give a more useful approach to continuing the installation instead of just forcing the Quit.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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