Ubiquity crashes when trying to create more than 16 partitions

Bug #891051 reported by TienFu Chen
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linux (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Jesse Sung
Oneiric
Invalid
Undecided
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Canonical Foundations Team
Oneiric
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Bug Description

Dell Vostro V131(201105-8050)
Oneiric installer crashed during installation.

TienFu Chen (ctf)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Anthony Wong (anthonywong)
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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote : Missing required logs.

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Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
tags: added: oneiric
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
assignee: Anthony Wong (anthonywong) → Jesse Sung (wenchien)
importance: Undecided → Medium
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TienFu Chen (ctf) wrote : Re: [Dell Vostro V131] Oneiric installer crashed

This bugs seems related to USB installer, I installed Oneiric successfully using CD via external usb cd-rom.
I will give it more tries to nail down the problem.

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Jesse Sung (wenchien) wrote :

@Tim,

Does it always fail? And when it fails, does it always stop at time zone setting?

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TienFu Chen (ctf) wrote :

Hi Jesse,
I tried the USB installer for few times. It shows multiple symptoms.
The case most reproduced is as the image attached.
And the whole installation can't be finished always.

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TienFu Chen (ctf) wrote :

Added the full log from installer.
Please unpack the files with apport-unpack.

Jesse Sung (wenchien)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → In Progress
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Jesse Sung (wenchien) wrote :

According to the screenshot in #4, installer is trying to create a file system on partition #20 of sda, but there are only sda[[1-16] in the /dev, that's why mkfs fails.

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Anthony Wong (anthonywong) wrote :

Confirmed with Jesse that this bug is not specific to this hardware. It is a generic issue in the installer which cannot support more than 16 partitions.

tags: removed: blocks-hwcert
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Jesse Sung (wenchien) wrote :

Remove all the existing partitions (except two dell partitions), and install oneiric twice without problem so far.
Try to create up to 20 partitions in the fdisk phase of installer, but I can only get sda[1-16] in /dev.
Boot up with an installed oneiric, there are sda[17-22] in /dev.
So this should not be a bug of kernel/driver, and not specific to Vostro V131.

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Jesse Sung (wenchien) wrote :

Open a shell and use 'fdisk' to add new partitions, device files would be created in /dev accordingly. But if installer is used for partitions adding, device file will not be created for partition number > 16.
May be an issue of partman.

tags: added: blocks-hwcert
tags: removed: blocks-hwcert
TienFu Chen (ctf)
tags: added: cid201105-8050 lab-taipei
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :

Let's keep only the ubiquity task open. This is no longer blocking certification.

Tim, can you test it with a daily iimage of Precise, to see if it happens with Precise (when having a lot of partitions).

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Invalid
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TienFu Chen (ctf) wrote :

I created more than 15 partition and installed Precise daily image on the system. This bug can be reproduced.
The partition table before processing installation is as below table.
1)The installation menu
http://ubuntuone.com/6mj6hmPJVzRBbzSwoCREw2
2) failed
http://ubuntuone.com/72Kuvu9Z9sqZ2k2qzcr1pW
3) The installer asks to upgrade the installed Ubuntu.
http://ubuntuone.com/5mVhsZbRLu6TaAI8sbKQHY

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Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00028e1c

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 20973567 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 20973568 41945087 10485760 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 41945088 62916607 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 62918654 625141759 281111553 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 62918656 83890175 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 83892224 104863743 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 104865792 125837311 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 125839360 146810879 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 146812928 167784447 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 167786496 188758015 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 188760064 209731583 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 209733632 230705151 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 230707200 251678719 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 251680768 272652287 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda15 272654336 293625855 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda16 293627904 314599423 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda17 314601472 621137919 153268224 83 Linux

TienFu Chen (ctf)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Evan Dandrea (ev)
status: New → Confirmed
Ara Pulido (ara)
summary: - [Dell Vostro V131] Oneiric installer crashed
+ Ubiquity crashes when trying to create more than 16 partitions
Ara Pulido (ara)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
assignee: Evan Dandrea (ev) → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

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.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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