[Bug 365702] Re: Installer fails to format partition

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: ubiquity-1.12.12

** Tags added: jaunty

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Title:
  Installer fails to format partition

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity


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  EDIT marcel: Please read comment #4
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  I booted from the newly released Kubuntu 9.04 Desktop amd64 iso and chose the install option.
  When asked about partitions, I chose the manual / advanced option.

  I have a scsi drive and I already had 2 ntfs partitions (sda1 and sda5) + 20 gb free space at the end.
  I made two more partitions in the free space, sda6 as ext4 and sda7 as swap (2gb) and I chose to format the ext4 partition.

  After hitting next, the installer worked a bit then told me it can't
  format the ext4 partition and jumped back to the time zone selection
  page.

  Tried again (partitions sda6 & sda7 were already there this time) and got the same error.
  Extract from /var/log/messages:

  Apr 23 20:12:54 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepReady
  Apr 23 20:13:20 ubuntu kernel: [ 2029.196034] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
  Apr 23 20:13:47 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: Step_before = stepReady
  Apr 23 20:13:47 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: progress_loop()
  Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman: mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
  Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman: Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or directory
  Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman:
  Apr 23 20:13:49 ubuntu partman: The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
  Apr 23 20:14:30 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepPartAdvanced
  Apr 23 20:14:31 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepLocation
  Apr 23 20:14:36 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: Step_before = stepLocation
  Apr 23 20:14:37 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: log-output -t ubiquity setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us -variant altgr-intl -option
  Apr 23 20:14:37 ubuntu ubiquity[9388]: switched to page stepKeyboardConf

  I managed to complete the installation by manually creating devices /dev/sda6 and /dev/sda7 before hitting next (I checked and I only had /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5, sda2 being the logical partition windows makes):
  mknod  /dev/sda6 b 8 6
  mknod  /dev/sda7 b 8 7

  I am guessing the installer won't automatically create the device
  files in /dev after creating the partitions, so it can't format them.

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