[Bug 454358] Re: karmic ubiquity installer hangs in partitioner after dismounting 2nd drive

[Phillip Susi]

That's great.. you have a nice day then.


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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Title:
  karmic ubiquity installer hangs in partitioner after dismounting 2nd
  drive

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  UNR karmic beta, installing on Acer Aspire OneD250 netbook.  Netbook
  has internal SATA hard drive, containing both Windows and a bug-
  aborted install of Karmic.  Also plugged into it is an external USB
  drive with an NTFS partition on it (used sometimes by the Windows
  install on this netbook).

  Installing from external USB CD drive.  Checked the CD from boot menu
  - it's good.

  Did live run.  Then hit Install to disk.

  Got through the questions to step 3, chose "USA" keyboard as
  recommended.  Got a pop-up "Unmount partitions that are in use?" about
  would I like to unmount /dev/sdb (the external USB drive) because it has partitions on it I
  won't be able to mess with in the installer.  Went out into a
  terminal, "df -h", sure, there's an unrelated filesystem on that
  drive, so I told the pop-up to unmount it ("Yes").  It did.

  But immediately after, it hangs with "Starting up the partitioner" in
  a pop-up on the screen, with scroll bar at 70%, saying "Detecting file
  systems...".  I've let it sit here for about ten minutes, it isn't moving.
  Cursor is a rotating circle.  The "Quit" button at the bottom of the
  screen is white (not grey) but hitting it has no effect.  There is no
  close box or quit box on the pop-up.  (There's a tiny circle on the left
  that pops up a menu, but the menu has "Close" greyed-out!)

  "ps ax" shows pid 5282 "/bin/sh /lib/partman/update.d/20detected_filesystem /va\
  r/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sdb 5 ....."

  *** BUG2:  ubiquity provides no way out when partitioner hangs.

  When I restarted, unplugged the USB external hard drive, and tried again, this problem did
  not occur.

  So I restarted, plugged it in again, rebooted the CD.  Tried doing "ubiquity -d" based on
  reading other bug reports.  Got same problem.

  Then after reading more ubiquity bug reports, I installed the latest
  ubiquity and webkit:

  Apt-get update; apt-get install libwebkit-1.0-2 (1.1.15.2-1) ubiquity
  (2.0.0)

  (As suggested in lp#452796).

  Got same hang.  I've attached syslog, partman, and installer/debug
  files.

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