[Bug 244536] Re: ubiquity crashes after searching for partitions with error message "??? ???"

[Phillip Susi]

Since this is both ancient and was fixed by the user correcting an
invalid filesystem, I'm going to go ahead and close this.  If there is a
way to reproduce it, please reopen and describe how.


** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  ubiquity crashes after searching for partitions with error message
  "??? ???"

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  System: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Live CD
  Package: Ubiquity / Partman

  Hello,
  unfortunately it is not possible  for me to come through the installation process of Ubuntu 8.04. After specifying the keyboard-layout the partitioner crashes with the obscure error message "??? ???".
  Analyzing the partman code, the error is generated in /lib/partman/lib/base.sh line 437 since the exception type is unknown. After the error message there are still partman processes running:

  log-output -t ubiquity --pass-stdout /bin/partman
  /bin/sh /lib/partman/display.d/10initial_auto
  /bin/sh /lib/partman/display.d/10initial_auto
  /bin/sh /lib/partman/automatically_partition/50biggest_free/choices

  I had also the same problem when trying to install Ubuntu Gutsy
  Gibbon. I could only install it with an upgrade from feisty. It seems
  to be a problem with my hard-drive in combination with partman. When I
  replaced my hard-drive no problems occur. Is there a workaround to
  skip the partitioning step? This is not a special issue of the live
  cd, the problem occurs on the text-mode-installer as well.


  Following, my partition-setup (fdisk -l):

  Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0xd53d826f

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1        1186     9526513+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda2            1187        3840    21318255   83  Linux
  /dev/sda4            3841        9729    47303392+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
  /dev/sda5            3841        9244    43407598+   b  W95 FAT32
  /dev/sda6            9245        9729     3895731    7  HPFS/NTFS

  Thanks in advance for answering,
  kind regards,
  rainman110

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