[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes during partition creation

[Lance Rushing]

I think I found the fix:

Installer was freezing during installation ( ubuntu-gnome 15.04 USB ).

I jumped over to a tty and checked the process list: $ ps -ef --forest

The process that was stalled was: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde1

I kill -HUP it's pid, and then ran the command by hand:  and I get a
prompt:

$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde1
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sde1 contains a ext4 file system
        last mounted on / on Wed May 6 06:10:18 2015
Proceed anyway? (y,n)

Looks like ext4 added a check that will need to disabled with a -F (??
is that safe ??)  OR have an expect script handle the prompt.

tl;dr mke2fs is prompting to confirm if existing ext4 partition
detected.  Prompt is not handled, causing install to hang.

-Lance

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to partman-ext3 in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361951

Title:
  Ubiquity freezes during partition creation

Status in partman-ext3 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/1361951/+subscriptions