12.04 installer crashes at manual partitioning

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday, July 29, 2012 03:42:15 AM Lutz Ostkamp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install Kubuntu 12.04 on my desktop. I have set up an
> encrypted LVM with a root, swap, and separate home partition + an
> unencrypted /boot, and I have manually formatted them.
> 
> When I start the installer, I get to manual partitioning, where I want
> to set mount points etc. When I set the settings for a partition in the
> popup window and then click OK, the installer quits and I get back to
> the live dekstop, without an error message. (like described here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-installer/+bug/572622)
> 
> This usually happens on the second partition I set up, the first works
> fine. It is not tied to a specific partition, because I have tried
> different orders.
> 
> Workarounds described here did not work:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1870357
> 
> Now, is this a known problem, and are there any workarounds? I remember
> having the same problem when I installed 11.10 on my laptop, but I got
> it to work after a few attempts there.
> 
> Using the alternate CD is not really an option at the moment, because I
> have wiped my PC, and I can't burn another CD (unless you can burn one
> from the live system with only one CD drive?).
> 
> Any help is appreciated!
> 
> greets,
> Lutz

Can't offer any help because this problem has existed for the last 3 or 4 
releases.  I installed a copy of 12.04 just two days ago and again, it bombed 
on the manual disk setup.

I can usually get away with about 4 manual entries so my work around is to 
just limit my setup to   /boot,  /,   /home,  and one other..   then I go in 
after the install and use my old fstab to add in the ones I left out and put 
them into the new fstab.




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