[Bug 1361951] Re: Utopic installation freezes during partition creation

[Erick Brunzell]

According to comment #9 one other person has encountered this, but it's
not easily or consistently reproducible.

So far I've only been able to reproduce it if 3 criteria are met:

(1) The partition selected for change must contain a previously installed OS.
(2) The selected partition must be a logical partition.
(3) The selected partition must be in the double digits, eg; sda13 or sda15 - so sdx10 or higher.

But even then it is not 100% reproducible. I even tried setting up a
blank physical hard drive with 1 primary partition, a logical swap, and
enough (8) logical partitions to extend to sda13 but could not reproduce
it.

I've checked the effected hard drive with fdisk -lu for any
irregularities and found none.

So I think we can only wait and see what happens, then follow up during
the 15.04 dev cycle. It is easily worked around by reformatting with
Gparted if it is encountered so even once confirmed it's a low priority
bug.

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Title:
  Utopic installation freezes during partition creation

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm testing an Ubuntu GNOME Utopic 20140826 i386 image and after
  selecting Something else and creating two partitions on a blank 80 GB
  (primary / about 77500mb and logical swap about 2500mb) shortly after
  the installation begins it freezes with the bottom of the window
  saying, "Creating ext4 filesystem for / in partition #1 of SCSI2
  (0,0,0) (sda) ...........".

  I've repeated this twice just in case the first attempt was a fluke,
  and the first time I waited well over an hour. I'm filing this report
  with the installer seemingly still attempting to run. I'd gladly
  repeat the test choosing to kill the installation before filing if I
  knew how.

  I'm attaching an actual screenshot of what the screen displays while
  frozen.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.19.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-10.15-generic 3.16.1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-10-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.6-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.343
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Tue Aug 26 22:27:21 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20140826)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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