[Bug 1038522] Re: [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes

[Ghoulish Teknology]

Ok this is quite frustrating but I figured out how to get around the
installer bug, which will seem quite stupid.

When I attempted to do the installs I would pick the manual partition option, and only select the partitions for root, /home, and swap. The fix is:
1 - Use a partitioning program (the one in the KDE 64bit installer or another like gParted) to create the desired partitions and format them.
2 - Reboot the PC and boot from the install CD, DVD, or USB key.
3 - Select the manual option.
4 - Select the previously created partition for root, /home, and the others except DO NOT CLICK ON THE SWAP PARTITION AND THEN CLICK THE CHANGE BUTTON.
5 - Select the desired location for the Grub boot loader.
6 - Click the Install or Continue button on the bottom right for the installation to proceed.

On the hard drive that I use for my Linux installs, there is only one
partition marked as swap (the others are marked ext4) so the installer
will figured it out. For some odd reason it chokes it you attempt to
actually specify the swap partition during the manual partition
setup/selection process.

FYI,
I was able to install Kubuntu 12.04 64bit from USB key using the same fix as above.

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Title:
  [kde] manual partitioning in installer crashes

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  when choosing manual partitioning, installer crashes when setting mount points. after many attempts where the installer just disapeared, I got:
  Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 105, in parent
      return self.createIndex(parentItem.row(), 0, parentItem)
  AttributeError: Partition instance has no attribute 'row'

  Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 100, in parent
      parentItem = childItem.parent()
  AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'

  Exception in KDE frontend (invoking crash handler):
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/PartitionModel.py", line 100, in parent
      parentItem = childItem.parent()
  AttributeError: 'LineWrapMode' object has no attribute 'parent'

  
  rather frustrating - I can set up 2 or 3 partitions before it crashes. I have 2 disks, sda and sdb and it doesn't reliably crash on any particular partition or disk. My Machine is currently a dual-boot Kubuntu 10.04 / Win 7 Ultimate. I wanted a complete fresh start for 12.04 so I was going to format the linux partitions

  sda1 bootable, NTFS
  sda2  Extended
  sda5  ext4  /home
  sda6 ext4  /var

  sdb1 NTFS
  sdb2 bootable ext4 /boot
  sdb3 Extended
  sdb5 ext4   /

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.315
  Date: Sat Aug 18 21:28:52 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed FRONTEND_BACKGROUND=original boot=casper maybe-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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