[Bug 1361951] Re: Ubiquity freezes during partition creation

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Being able to reproduce once is unfortunate, but can you reproduce this
every time you try to install? If so, have you tried to use the exact
same steps on a different machine, or on a different disk, with the same
results?

The issue that I have here is that while I appreciate that this issue
happens in the wild; I'm completely unable to reproduce it with the
various different formatting methods I tried -- I tried full disk, but
this rewrites the partition tables so it doesn't matter even if you had
data on a partition previously. I tried 'reinstall' (which I understand
just formats the pre-existing partitions), and 'something else' (using a
manual partitioning, I tried with ext2, ext3 and ext4, etc.).

Given that I'm unable to reproduce this with the various options above,
the only thing I can think of by now is that there is some piece of the
picture missing. Is the installer booted in EFI? Are you certain that
the disks aren't nearly failing and that would explain the issues
(especially if it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, with the exact
same process)?

If you can reproduce this *every single try* using a set of precise
instructions, please comment here on the bug and set the bug back to New
so we can look into these instructions and debug why they cause a
failure.

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Title:
  Ubiquity freezes during partition creation

Status in partman-ext3 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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