Installation report: Ubuntu desktop 20080723 amd64

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:27:26PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>  * Apport was not triggered for the Ubiquity crash, so no crash report was
>    generated and I had to file the bug report manually, later, with
>    incomplete info.  It's disabled in /etc/default/apport, but I thought
>    Ubiquity was an exception to this.

Evan mentioned on IRC that he will look into this.

>  * Just before the installation completed, the entire system froze.  It was
>    in the middle of removing packages, and the last thing I saw in the long
>    (which I was watching at the time) was dpkg output, strangely all in
>    caps:
>    ... (READING DATABASE...
>    ... 273427498732 FILES AND DIRECTORIES CURRENTLY INSTALLED.)
>    ... REMOVING GPARTED...
> 
>    etc.  The log showed the postrm of gparted (I think) failing due to a
>    segmentation fault, and a few lines later, it froze.  Presumably this is
>    a kernel issue, but I have no information to offer in a bug report yet.
>    I will try to reproduce it with the new crash dump facility.

I have been able to reproduce this reliably and capture a trace from the
kernel BUG:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/251223

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 - mdz