[Bug 98685] Re: grub -install crashed on drive with gpt disklabel

[Dave Walker]

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  grub -install crashed on drive with gpt disklabel

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub-installer

  Installer crashed

  I received a message that I report the bug to
  https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+firebug;
  however, that URL did not work.

  I encountered the following bug while installing Ubuntu on a new computer,
  which had never had an operating system previously installed.

  I had specifed 'gpt' as the disklabel.

  Asides: 
   - (When repeating the installation on an identical drive using the 'msdos' disk
      label the installer crash did not occur.)
   - (The partitioner recommended using the default value of 'msdos'. However, I
      am completely fed up with Microsoft, and while migrating to Linux, I really
      did not want to have my new system predicated on MS-DOS.  Also, I planned
      to have eight partitions and preferred to use a disklabel that natively
      supported more than four.)
   - (Thus far I have been unable to get rid of the 'gpt' disklabel that I created.)

  I had edited the partition table and mount points as follows:

      ---     ---          256 MB       256 MB
      sda1    /boot'         2 GB      2048 MB
      sda2    /usr'        102 GB    104448 MB
      sda3    /home'        20 GB     20480 MB
      sda4    /'            20 GB     20480 MB
      sda5    '/swap'        2 GB      2048 MB
      sda6    /var'         20 GB     20480 MB
      sda7    /download'    20 GB     20480 MB
      sda8    /temp'     ~ 111 GB	(remainder)
      total               ~289 GB

  --- Installing system   ---
  (progress bar) = 94%
  Running "grub -install (hd0)" ...

  --- Installer crashed ---
  (I do not have access to the log files.)
  Traceback
  File */usr/bin/ubiquity*, line 130, in ?
      install(sys.argv[1])
  File */usr/bin/ubiquity*, line 55, in install
      ret = wizard.run()
  File */usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py*, line 266, in run
      self.process_step()
  File */usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py*, line 755, in process_step
      self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File */usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py*, line 1114, in mountpoints_to_summary
      self.progress_loop()
  File */usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py*, line 553, in progress_loop
      raise RuntimeError.("install failed with exit code %s; see "
  RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/intaller/syslog and var/log/syslog

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