[Bug 480957] Re: Step 3 of 6 takes for about an hour

[Phillip Susi]

It appears that you have several Windows filesystems that are damaged.
Please run chkdsk /f on them from Windows and try again.


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

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Title:
  Step 3 of 6 takes for about an hour

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  When installing Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit (using the desktop install CD),
  step 3 of 6 (the one that starts with the "Starting partitioner"
  progress dialog) takes for about an hour here. The "Starting
  partitioner" dialog runs up to 100% in about 1 min, disappears, and
  then the (previous) keyboard layout selection page stays visible all
  the remaining time with the mouse pointer having the "please wait"
  shape. The hard disk led keeps blinking during this hour. When the
  process finishes and I select the manual partition configuration, it
  takes another 10 minutes to show the "Prepare partitions" dialog. As
  long as I perform manual assignments, the "Scanning disks..." progress
  dialog periodically appears, sometimes taking another ~10 min each
  time to complete. I noticed that this 10 min delay always happens when
  I change the properties (e.g. mount point) of the NTFS partition which
  is ~123G in size (/dev/sda14, see below) and that changing the
  properties of other partitions is way faster (less than a minute).
  When I'm finished with partitions and press Next, the remaining part
  of the installation process goes flawlessly up to the end.

  Note that I also tried to run "gparted /dev/sda" manually from the
  terminal while booted from the desktop install CD and I must confirm
  that the gparted start-up also takes about 10 min in this case (it
  says "scanning /dev/sda..." while starting), so the delay is somehow
  related to the layout of my hard disk it seems -- the difference is
  that the installer probably scans the hard disk several times and
  hence the 5-6 times longer delay. BTW, I looked at the output of
  gparted and it doesn't print anything interesting to the terminal
  except the libparted version (so it's definitely not the missing
  floppy delay I read somewhere about when searching for an
  explanation).

  Here is the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda':

  Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0xfb7cfb7b

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1           1        8001    a  OS/2 Boot Manager
  /dev/sda2               2         524     4200997+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda3             525        1569     8393962+  17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda4            1570       30401   231593040    5  Extended
  /dev/sda5   *        1570        2614     8393931    7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda6   *        2615        3659     8393931   83  Linux
  /dev/sda7   *        3660        3921     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda8   *        3922        4183     2104483+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda9   *        4184        4445     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda10  *        4446        4968     4200966    7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda11  *        4969        8102    25173823+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda12  *        8103       11236    25173823+  83  Linux
  /dev/sda13  *       11237       14370    25173823+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda14          14371       29355   120366981    7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda15          29356       30401     8401963+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

  I also attached the /var/log/installer/syslog and
  /var/log/installer/partman files, as requested. I see a lot of
  messages related to ntfs and /dev/sda14 in there and it even complains
  that NTFS is inconsistent but I think it's unrelated because I've just
  fixed the NTFS partition from Windows and repeated the install attempt
  -- the same long-long delay in step 3 of 6 (though I didn't wait till
  the end this time).

  PS. Starting gparted from Ubuntu running from the hard disk is much
  faster BTW -- it takes just half a minute instead of 10.

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