[Bug 677016] Re: firewire drive crashes ubiquity's parted_server process as well as gparted

[Phillip Susi]

Can you reproduce this by running parted or gparted from the terminal,
and post any output?


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       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  firewire drive crashes ubiquity's parted_server process as well as
  gparted

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  firewire drive crashes ubiquity's parted_server process as well as
  gparted

  When trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit Desktop (with my Lacie
  Bigdisk Extreme 500GB[1] drive present - Firewire bus), ubiquity
  freezes when getting to the "Allocate Drive Space" step of the
  installation, crashes then reports the following error message:

  crash report detected - parted_server closed
  problem in ubiquity - assertion failure - message could not be retrieve.
  apport doesn't support reporting these crashes

  
  Opening GParted Partition Editor does not respond. Disk Utility recognizes the external drives but is unable to perform any task. The disk itself is formatted as ntfs and can't be mount, often giving the error that it is already mounted. Disconnect firewire drive and ubiquity, gparted and disk utility run as expected.

  Parted_server log doesn't show anything interesting, but syslog shows
  the following:

  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity: Backtrace has 8 calls on stack:
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   8: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7f06eb0755c1]
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x4018e) [0x7f06eb0a718e]
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7f06eb07c815]
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   5: parted_server() [0x40ecb6]
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   4: parted_server() [0x40eeea]
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   3: parted_server() [0x40f570]
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f06ead02d8e]
  Nov 18 14:26:02 ubuntu ubiquity:   1: parted_server() [0x4028c9]
  Nov 18 14:26:29 ubuntu ubiquity: debconf: DbDriver "targetdb": could not open /target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat
  Nov 18 14:26:29 ubuntu ubiquity[3771]: log-output -t ubiquity debconf-copydb configdb targetdb -p ^console-setup/ --config=Name:targetdb --config=Driver:File --config=Filename:/target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat
  Nov 18 14:26:29 ubuntu ubiquity: debconf: DbDriver "targetdb": could not open /target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat
  Nov 18 14:26:29 ubuntu ubiquity[3771]: log-output -t ubiquity debconf-copydb configdb targetdb -p ^oem-config/ --config=Name:targetdb --config=Driver:File --config=Filename:/target/var/cache/debconf/config.dat

  Firewire Controller Info:
  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80)
  	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:2a26]
  	Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
  	Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394

  Firewire Drive Info:
       *-scsi:0
            physical id: 1
            logical name: scsi5
          *-disk
               description: SCSI
               product: BigDisk Extreme
               vendor: LaCie
               physical id: 0.0.0
               bus info: scsi at 5:0.0.0
               logical name: /dev/sdc
               version: 912
               serial: Y633P25E
               size: 467GiB (502GB)
               capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
               configuration: ansiversion=4 signature=257212b9
             *-volume
                  description: Windows NTFS volume
                  physical id: 1
                  bus info: scsi at 5:0.0.0,1
                  logical name: /dev/sdc1
                  version: 3.1
                  serial: 4a43a35f-0c5f-784c-a299-bba3a752dfd3
                  size: 467GiB
                  capacity: 467GiB
                  capabilities: primary ntfs initialized
                  configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2010-10-19 09:03:36 filesystem=ntfs label=External-K state=clean

  
  [1] http://www.lacie.com/download/datasheet/bigdisk_extreme_triple_en.pdf

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.4.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Nov 18 14:42:37 2010
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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