[Bug 1447600] Re: 15.04 installer hangs in partitioner during something else

[Marek Stasiak]

Ok I tried to install 15.04 x64 and 15.10 x64 for two days without
success. Then I started looking for similar problem and landed at this
bug report.

I had clean HDD without any partitions, used .iso images installed on
pendrives by USB universal installer, unetbootin or that default ubuntu
tool, same result everywhere. No error alert, no nothing, installation
is not moving forward after I enter the password for full-system
encryption. Then I tried solution #17 by Uwe Geuder and it worked
(thanks!). In my case I had to do this:

[installation didn't move after I wrote down full-system encryption password]
1. go to virtual console 2
2. search for mkfs process (for me it was 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1')
3. sudo kill -9 pid of that process
4. execute the same command: sudo mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1 [had to confirm y/n]
5. go back to gui by ctrl+alt+F7
6. kill ubiquity process [freezed installation]
7. start new installation

which is basically 1:1 #17 solution and I successfully completed
installation.

Don't know when the problem lays. I can reproduce it easily, but there
seems to be no errors to collect from logs.

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Title:
  15.04 installer hangs in partitioner during something else

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  In both Ubuntu and Lubuntu 15.04, when performing a "Something Else"
  install, the installer hangs when trying to format /.

  I was trying a Something Else install on 32 bit.  I asked to format
  sda1 as ext4 and mount at /.  I asked to not format sda3 and mount at
  /home.  I asked to use sda5 as swap.  Installer just stopped with no
  hard drive or CD activity.  No formatting was performed.

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