[Bug 1372953] Re: Utopic ubiquity froze while reformatting existing partition

[Erick Brunzell]

An additional caveat to this failed formatting seems to be creating
overlapping partitions, at least if the target partition is a logical
partition. I first thought maybe I had an overlapping partition problem
prior to the failed installation which could cause things to fail but I
used FixParts since it was an extended partition overlapping a primary
partition and then repeated the test with the same results, and creating
an overlap again, where the extended partition began before the end of
the primary partition just before it.

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Title:
  Utopic ubiquity froze while reformatting existing partition

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Attempting to install Ubuntu GNOME Utopic 20140923 i386 and I chose
  Something else. From there I chose my partition sda13 marked format,
  use as /, ext4, no size change. I waited for quite a while and there
  was no progress, again no resizing was being done. The installer only
  needed to format, create ext 4, and set the mount point. It appeared
  that /var/log/installer/debug showed an error just respawning over and
  over again.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.19.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-17.23-generic 3.16.3
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-17-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.344
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Tue Sep 23 13:59:36 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20140923)
  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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